Reflection60 min weekly
The Shema hour
Jesus is Lord
Block one hour with no screen and one text — Deuteronomy 6. Read it until a zone of your life surfaces that has been exempted.
First step
Practices
Small enough to actually happen
Nine embodied practices lifted straight out of the courses. Each one names the necessity it serves, the time it takes, and a first step specific enough that someone could ask whether you took it.
Dissonance2 hours, once
The maintenance audit
mDNA
List everything your community spends money and energy maintaining. Put a cross next to what would not be missed.
First step
Practice2 hours weekly
Two unhurried hours
Incarnational impulse
Go to the place you are sent with no agenda and nothing to organise. Notice who is already there.
First step
Community45 min weekly
How is it with your soul?
Disciple-making
Ask one person to meet weekly around Wesley’s question. Build a pair, not a programme.
First step
Practice30 min monthly
The reproducibility test
Organic systems
Take one practice and strip it until an untrained person with no budget could lead it. Then let them.
First step
CommunitySix months
A shared ordeal
Communitas
With two others, name one thing you could attempt together that would fail without God. Date it.
First step
Dissonance90 min, once
Naming the exiled three
APEST
With your team, name who has been marginalised because their gifting had no place in your structure.
First step
Reflection40 min weekly
The wonder walk
Reframation
Walk without a podcast. Let one thing be larger than your explanation of it, and stay there.
First step
PracticeNinety days
The ninety-day change
Apostolic environment
Name one structure that suppresses an element of mDNA. Change it inside ninety days and tell someone the date.
First step
Practices work best inside an arc
On their own these are good habits. Held inside a course — with dissonance before them and honest debrief after — they become formation.