Born & Raised

Everyone is on a spiritual journey whether we identify as spiritual or not. Every day, our inner life is being shaped and influenced - and we’re often not happy with where we’re headed. As we launch this 8-week series, we’ll discover Jesus’ invitation to a better spiritual journey and how to begin walking with Him.

The first stages of our journey with Jesus are as foundational as childhood and adolescent years are for human development. But how do we know if traveled these critical early stages, or skipped them, or missed them?

The journey inward is often the most misunderstood stage of our spiritual journey with Jesus. It’s the stage with the greatest potential to trip us up, but it’s also the stage with the best opportunities to help us experience the abundant life Jesus came to offer.

We're slowing down to talk about something that is important and valuable at every stage – Spiritual Practices. Spiritual practices exist to help us bear fruit / flourish with Christ. Not to prove we are good Christians.

As we walk through our spiritual journey, we’ll naturally be looking for directions along the way. But God provides for us something better than turn-by-turn navigation, He comes along side of us as our Guide. Learning to hear the Guide’s voice is essential to navigating the journey.

We’re all going to hit a Wall at some point in our spiritual journey – a time when our will collides with God’s will. Let’s learn the warnings from Scripture about how we’ll be tempted to respond at the Wall, so we can get through those times and experience what God has for us on the other side.

When in our stages of growth as followers of Christ we find ourselves hitting a wall that threatens to destroy our faith, our future, our very lives, God is there. The wall doesn’t represent the end but, is instead our invitation through and into a deeper life of surrender, love, impact and intimate friendship with God!