The Theodyssey Approach.
OUR MINDSET
Try as we might, we can't make a seed grow. But we can cultivate an environment where growth can happen.
It works the same way with God. While we can't make our spiritual life happen, we can learn to recognize, welcome, and cultivate His presence in our lives.
Cultivating the spiritual life, like farming, is a vigorous task.
Theodyssey involves coming to grips with our own script — discovering and dealing with false beliefs, and then exploring the God story in a fresh way. The goal is to flesh-out an authentic relationship with Jesus in our 21st century context.
There are no 1-2-3's. No formulas. It's unpredictable, intense, and messy. The focus is on being 'fruitful', instead of striving to be 'productive'. It's about formation, not just information. It involves the whole person, not simply the spiritualized 'compartments' of our lives.
The aim is the untamed New Testament vision of becoming someone new. It's about becoming like Jesus at the core of our personhood.
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INFLUENCES The Theodyssey approach was born out of two decades of experience with some of this generations best thinkers, writers, and practitioners of spiritual formation. People like Henri Nouwen, Rose-Clarisse Gadoury, James Houston, James Fowler, Richard Foster, Eugene Peterson, Leanne Payne, and Richard Lovelace. |
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OUR FOUR THREADS
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Holy Scripture
We're commited to God's 'take' on how life works.
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Historic Christian Spirituality
We gather wisdom from people like John of the Cross, Thomas Merton, Teresa of Avial, C.S. Lewis, Thomas Kelley, Brother Lawrence, Henri Nouwen, Jonathon Edwards, and many more.
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Whole Person
Spiritual life invloves the whole person; thinking, emotions, conscience, will and sexuality. Self-knowledge involves understanding how our personalities were formed, and how we're wired.
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Authentic Community
We work at creating a place where authentic relationships can happen.
Instead of something 'new,' we're doing something 'old': We're learning to be like Jesus for the sake of others.
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