Thought for the Week “We are intensely attached,” Matthew Kelly observes, “to being perceived in a positive light, even by people we don’t know and …
A Different Kind of Mask
A Different Kind of Mask
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TGR-S4E5: FishBowl Dialogues
StandardThis week on The Great Reset we discuss the proposal for FishBowl Dialogues (FBD), a game for cultivating constructive relational practices.
Question: How can we all get better at loving everyone the way Jesus does?
Perspective: By publicly playing a game where we practice, observe, and learn the relevant skills.
Continue readingTGR-S4E4: Cross Training
StandardThis week on The Great Reset our Biasta Janet leads the Biastes through an exercise in Christlike Relational Roleplay.
Question: How do we shift the focus of the Body of Christ from “getting fed” to “getting fit” (to represent Jesus)?
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PBxpiZ5AAiKbaT48gB4lOoPDRjPVpBhWpBsZ_ihF8k8/edit?usp=sharing
Continue readingTGR-S3E2: Biastes Co-Discipling Network (Pitch V1)
StandardThe Biastes continue Season 3 of The Great Reset by attempting to articulate concrete commitments we can make together to help us become better husbands and fathers, yet at the same time advance Christ’s purposes on multiple levels.
“He must become greater; I must become less.” — John 3:30
Question: How can we as men, whatever our occupation and family situation, make every action count for the Kingdom of God?
Continue readingThe Right Holy
StandardWhat if we as Christians redefined our current understanding of “holiness” to match what God intended in Genesis, and Christ demonstrated in the gospels?
Continue readingTGR-S2E3: Educating Reformers
StandardWe continue this Season’s focus on The Great Reset of Education at Tuesday 6/2, 1 PM Pacific.
Question
How do we raise up those who follow to represent Jesus better than we have?
Perspective
Adaptive Christianity
A Constructivist Manifesto for Decentralizing Church
(Inspired by the Agile Manifesto)
Continue readingTGR-04: Loving The Other
StandardJoin us on Zoom or Facebook to co-create the video of this episode at 10 AM PST on Friday, April 24th, 2020 AD.
- Question: How do we love like Jesus?
- Perspective: I will love the “Other” as Jesus loved me.
- Premise: Love is a muscle that strengthens through deliberate practice
- Inspiration: “I only start counting when it starts hurting.” — Muhammad Ali
TGR-01: The Cup of Suffering
StandardThe Great Reset: Becoming the Church Decentralized
Episode 1 • April 3, 2020 AD
Public Discipleship as Exercise for the Body of Christ
Ernest Prabhakar, Speaker Domaĝanto: Question Tamer in Esperanto
- Assumptions to Discuss
- A1: Nothing on earth is more important than becoming (loving) like Jesus
- A2: That includes becoming like Him in His sufferings (“drinking from His cup”)
- A3: God as a good Father sometimes asks us, like Jesus, to embrace things we don’t see as good for us.
- Questions to Answer
- Q1: Are we also willing to submit to the Father’s plan, no matter how painful?
- Q2: What is the suffering God might be calling each of us to rejoice in, rather than reject?
- Q3: What is the joy set before us, that would make it all worthwhile?
AORTA Adolescence: The Perpetual Practice of Growing into Christ
StandardIt may be too late to have a happy childhood, but it is never too late to have a turbulent adolescence!
We as a society have lost sight of what it means to grow up. And that’s a good thing!
The gift (and curse) of the Enlightenment is that each of us must answer the question: who do I want to be when I grow up? It is tempting to envy our ancestors and traditional cultures who had well-defined “markers of maturity”, e.g., marriage, mortgage, and making money. There is enormous security, stability, and support in having society validate who you are supposed to be.
But there is also enormous danger, especially for Christians.
Anjali’s Catechism: A Childlike Invitation to Spiritual Christianity
StandardAnjali’s Catechism: The Book is coming in Summer 2019. Preview now.
The Invitation
Are you ready to:
- Embrace the One who created the universe as the Heavenly Father who loves you like Jesus?
- Submit your awareness, values, and goals to becoming more like Christ’s?
- Receive God’s Spirit, Word, and Body to reveal and heal the wounds in your spirit that hinder you from becoming like Jesus?
- Value God’s happiness, glory, and relationships more than your own?
- Practice generosity and vulnerability so others can see Christ in you?
- Surrender childlike happiness for the grown-up joy of loving like Jesus?
Lessons
Lesson 2/6: Growing Up (Anjali’s Catechism)
StandardDiscipleship: Make Us Like Jesus
As we mentioned last time, the whole point of being a Christian is to become like Jesus: knowing God and loving others the way He did. In fact, the very word “Christian” means “little Christ.” We are supposed to be pictures of Jesus Christ, the way Jesus is a picture of God the Father.
So how do we get there?
D-Church: What God is Doing Next?
Standard“I am D-Church,
You are D-Church,
We are D-Church together….”
God seems to be doing something new in the body of Christ.
He’s Worth It: Worship in Three Syllables
StandardPart 4 of 6 in the series Childlike Theology
Discipleship is hard. It requires facing ugly truths about ourselves, letting go of coping strategies that served us well in the past, and taking responsibility for larger dysfunctions that really aren’t our fault.
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