Meet Our Pastor

Pastor Jaron left behind a promising corporate engineering career to embark upon this amazing pursuit in 2011. During that year, He & his wife Eboni felt a strong sense that God was calling them to lead and disciple imperfect people to become His living, breathing answers to issues in our community. They believed that putting their lives and careers on the altar, in order to carry out God’s mission, was worth the sacrifice. Pastor Jaron graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary-Houston (ThM) in 2016 and completed a church-planting residency at Crossover Bible Fellowship Church prior to launching Shine Bible Fellowship in October of 2016. He is a former resident of the Houston Church Planting Network (www.HCPN.org). He also spent 1 year as a chaplain resident in the Texas Medical Center to go along with his 15+ years of ministry experience. He was born and raised in St. Louis, MO and is the self-proclaimed “biggest Cardinal baseball fan in Houston. 

Eboni is a CPA and a native Houstonian, with accounting degrees from Dillard University and the University of Virginia. She enjoys watching home improvement shows, hanging out with family & friends, eating seafood, dancing at family reunions and spending time with their three children, Chloe, Kendal & Kyler. Pastor Jaron & Eboni have been married since 2007.  

Our Story

The story of Shine begins with a simple question. What would our churches, community and city look like if we added personal transformation to mobilization? Well…according to the Bible we would have an unstoppable movement, propelled by the Holy Spirit, that would see real hope & change brought to the places where we do everyday life. This movement would not only transform followers of Jesus to be more like him, but would also mobilize us to impact the lives of others for him. Shine desires to be a church where imperfect people can seek God together, be comfortable “removing our masks” to reveal our struggles, love one another unconditionally and grow into followers of Jesus that go out and bring more people into this movement.  

Since Shine has launched, God’s power and blessings have been seen in amazing ways! People have been baptized, dozens are being discipled, leaders are being trained and mobilized, hundreds of hours have been served in the community, money has been invested outside of the four walls of the church to advance the gospel. The mission "to daily pursue Christ, to daily transform our world" has been guiding the church since day one.  

Our Beliefs

We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.

We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.  

We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed.  

We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus—Israel’s promised Messiah—was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.  

We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.  

We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.  

We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God’s grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.  

We believe that God’s justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.  

We believe that Scripture teaches the home was the first institution provided to man by God himself. We believe that marriage is a sacred relationship that is between a man and a woman. Marriage is used as a symbol that describes the relationship between Christ and His bride, the church.  

We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.  

We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.