I get asked all the time what I do.  And its not a simple answer.  I have been blessed with the opportunity to spend a lot of my time exploring how people gather in community, what some would call ecclessiology.  I’m sort of an anthropologist in the church space.

Over the last eight years I’ve been exploring how we gather together in intentional community.  We ended up calling it the Jesus Model, which is the idea of twelve people gathering together for three years to intentionally practice the Way of Jesus together.  The journey has been utterly amazing, thrilling, hard, and painful but in the end worth every ounce of investment. I would do it all again if I could.

In this process many people started asking us how we do what we do.  So we started taking notes, writing down ideas, developing teachings, and creating exercises on spiritual formation.  The end result was the Thrive Leadership Manual and a series of workbooks designed to help intentional communities work through the process.  The new Leadership Manual describes the process, the ethos, and dives deeply into the Jesus Model.  It provides a framework for not on how we gather but why.

If you are looking to create an intentional space of grace and find your tribe, I want to invite you to explore the Thrive process.