Practicing the Way: An 8-Week Group Experience

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Is your faith stalling amid a busy, distracted world? Do you long for deeper community and a pathway to genuine spiritual growth? Practicing the Way is a new 8-week journey designed to help you discover what it truly means to follow Jesus in today’s hectic culture.

Over weekly sessions you’ll gain a foundational understanding of intentional spiritual formation, exploring how to practice a way of life rather than simply “going to church.”  Week by week, you’ll:

➡️ Develop a daily rhythm of connecting with God and take a life audit of the habits, relationships and stories that shape you.
➡️ Learn ancient spiritual disciplines that create space for the Spirit to transform you from the inside out.
➡️ Explore how to meet God in pain, heal from sin, and craft a personalized Rule of Life—an intentional plan of practices and relational rhythms to be with Jesus, become like him and do as he didpracticingtheway.org.
➡️ Experience life together by cultivating a community of depth, vulnerability and commitment to transformation.

This group experience is a welcoming on‑ramp for anyone seeking to grow in their faith, build meaningful relationships and embark on a lifelong journey of apprenticeship to Jesus.

Schedule Overview

Session 1: Following Jesus – Following Jesus is more than going to church or believing the right things; it is practicing a way of life. The meaning of “follow Jesus” is rooted in 1st-century practices of rabbis and apprentices, practices that inform our understanding of how to follow Jesus today.

Session 2: Formation, Part 1 – Whether we realize it or not, all of us are being formed — by our habits, relationships, the stories we believe, and our environment. This session explores the six primary forces shaping individuals: habits, relationships, stories, environment, time, and experience.

Session 3: Formation, Part 2 – Many of us desire to become more like Jesus, but we feel stuck. We need a training program, a reliable pathway to transformation. We find this in the Way of Jesus, which shows us how to intentionally engage formation.

Session 4: The Practices – The Practices are disciplines that create space for the Spirit to transform us from the inside out. Learn about practicing ancient disciplines that open us up to God to change us at the deepest level.

Session 5: Meeting God in Pain and Suffering – The Practices can expose pain as our soul begins to process and discharge suffering. This session explores the three primary ways people deal with pain (deny, detach, or drug), how unhealed pain sabotages transformation, and how God can meet us in pain to bring lasting change.

Session 6: Healing from Sin – This session covers three dimensions of sin — sin done by us, sin done to us, and sin done around us — and explores four layers of sin we move through in our healing: gross sins, conscious sins, unconscious sins, and attachments. Finally, the session covers our part in healing, the practice of confession.

Session 7: Crafting a Rule of Life – Transformation is possible, but it’s not inevitable. Learn how to build an intentional plan, or what the early Christians called a “Rule of Life”: a schedule and a set of practices and relational rhythms that create space for us to be with Jesus, become like him, and do as he did.

Session 8: Life Together – To sustain a lifelong journey of following Jesus, we need to key in on one final critical truth: You are meant to follow Jesus in community. Learn how to cultivate a community of depth, vulnerability, and commitment to transformation.