Come Follow Me: An Orientation To The Journey is the first in a series of 12 workbooks for Thrive Ministries and produced by Jonathan Brink. In this quarter (Q1) workbook, tribes begin an orientation process, exploring the following ideas: * God is engaged in a mission of restoration and reconciliation. * To fully engage the mission the tribe is working towards a deeper form of intentional community called communitas. * Truth is remarkably simple, does not change and is based on God's declarations. What changes is our perception of truth, specifically dignity, identity, and purpose. * The...

What happens when people begin to practice love? This collection of stories explores a remarkably simple idea. What would it look like to practice love? What would happen if we actively chose to engage a deep sense of love even in hard places? The possibilities include a love for God, a love for the self, a love for a neighbor, and even a love for an enemy. What emerges will inspire and challenge the reader to reconsider what it means to live out the practice of love in our lives. Jesus invited people to engage love as a way of living. It was the defining act of what it meant to live. And in...

Is your heart craving authentic community? Have you been looking for a deeper understanding of the Christian faith and what it means to follow in the footsteps of Jesus? Thrive just might be the answer. Thrive is an emerging process for planting churches and missional communities that engages God's mission in the Way of Jesus. Based on the Jesus Model, Thrive provides a three year structured process for gathering together as a tribe for the sake of restoration and discovering what it means to be human. It's a simple means for participating in what God is already doing. The Jesus Model invites...

Deep inside you always knew it was there, that image of God drawing you in to healing, restoration, hope and even love. You wanted it to be true. You couldn't ignore it, even though you weren't sure it was true. Yet finding that image in Scripture is often hard. It's easy to see God as angry and bent on catching us when we fail. What if the story the Bible could actually reinforce what your heart longed to be true? What if the story was actually about God's relentless pursuit of the restoration of all creation, of you? You just needed help seeing it. In this re-examination of the story of...