Disciple-Shaping Your Home.

One of the best to kill the vibe of a perfectly good small group is a curriculum. The alternative - discussing Sunday sermons - doesn’t offer a better growth trajectory. We’ve all been there - discussion narrows, relationships find a polite lane, and learning becomes primarily cognitive.

So, what if the “content” was your family rehearsing what you believe is true about God? What if you could move the needle of your small group from discussion to demonstration? From information to equipping? What if the “syllabus” was four daily, relational disciple-making “windows” (morning, drive, meal, & bed times) to seek and sense the Lord? And, what if you had a monthly “lab” - with lab partners - to experiment with faith, findings, and family?

With the release of Homegrown Disciples - and after a summer of podcast interviews, traveling, and speaking - a host of families are using the Four Daily Windows (Deut.6) and the Seven Disciple-shaping Rhythms to cultivate a growing awareness of God’s presence and draw their kids into life with God. The book is more “show don’t tell” and offers parents loads of family conversation starters, exercises to nurture their faith, as well as DIY faith experiments. The book is like a “field guide” for earnest parents to instill a living, embodied, personal faith in our kids.

Relational disciple-making is not one-sided, where our kids are on the receiving end of our spiritual leadership. Rather, it’s discovering all the ways God is parenting and discipling us while raising them.

This school year only, I’m hosting a monthly pastoral call with parents called, E.Q.U.i.P. to Encourage Qualities Undeveloped in Parents. Instead of feeling inadequate or wonder if you’re doing enough, I want to talk through a Rhythm a month from Oct.1 through May 6 (first Wednesday’s). And since I spent the last three years doing doctoral research into cultural shifts and renewing the church in a post-Christian West, I want to raise the emotional, cultural, spiritual intelligence of parents. If you have questions, I’d love to hear from you!

Registration is Open and you can find more information HERE.

This is where I’m also inviting parents to join with 2-3 other families. While many of the suggestions are ideal as just a family, several of the rhythm experiments work really well in a larger community. This is where church shifts from an event or program to a community in solidarity, like an extended family of faith on mission.