Reimagining Church – Facing and Discerning a Path to Renewal

DESCRIPTION

Many people today carry wounds from the church and wonder if there is still a place for them in God’s story. Others sense the Spirit stirring but are unsure how to begin. This 12-week journey creates space to process past hurts, uncover dysfunctional church narratives, and imagine new possibilities of what church could be. Together we will walk through faithful deconstruction, fruitful reconstruction, practical discipleship, and team formation, all with the goal of discernment. By the end, you will have the clarity to know whether God is calling you to experiment with a new community of faith, one that is rooted in love, shaped by Jesus, and open to personal and social transformation.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

• Time to process your personal pain and disappointment
• Discover common dysfunctions of church.
• Re-imagine what it means to be the church.
• Learn how to engage in everyday discipleship.
• Discern your call to start a Faith Community.
• Create a contagious invitation for others to join you.

PRE-WORK

Take the Person 360 Assessment ($25): https://5qcentral.com/tests/

Take the Enneagram Narrative Assessment ($10): https://bit.ly/3Z5Ch50

Take Initial Snapshot Survey (Available March 2026)

ONGOING READING AND VIEWING

Watch Faithful Deconstruction Series (6 Part): https://bit.ly/3ZiEqMd

THE FLOW

(The timing of the live discussions will be determined based on survey responses from registrants.)

March 4, 11, 18, 25; April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; May 6, 13, 20)

FAITHFUL DECONSTRUCTION

Week 1 – Pain, Possibilities and Identity

Week 2 – Dysfunctional Church Planting Narratives

Week 3 – Detecting the Spirit in Our Context

FRUITFUL RECONSTRUCTION

Week 4 – How Pain Sits in Our Bodies

Week 5 – A New Way of Belonging

Week 6 – A New Posture toward Mission

FACILIATING DISCIPLESHIP

Week 7 – Everyday Discipleship

Week 8 – Everyday Mission

Week 9 – Understanding a Discipleship Pathway

FORMING TEAM

Week 10 – Understanding Your Five-fold

Week 11 – Finding Others to Join You on the Journey

Week 12 – Discerning the Call to Start a Faith Community

THE RHYTHM

STEP ONE: You will be sent original material and an audio/visual element through an online platform called Engage Spaces.

STEP TWO: You will enter a short reflective exercise onto your personal (private) profile.

STEP THREE: You will attend a live group coaching call with JR Woodward and Jessie Cruickshank.

THE COST

$200 for all 12 weeks (includes weekly articles, videos, and 12 coaching sessions, you will need to pay for Five-fold Assessment) Spouses: Free, Team Members: $100.

POST-WORK

Post Assessment

Future Pathway

THE COACHES

JR Woodward Ph.D. (University of Manchester, UK) loves to awaken people to join God in the renewal of all things. He is a catalyst who has been passionately starting churches and ministries for the good of the world for over thirty years. He co-founded Missio Alliance and currently serves as the National Director for the V3 Church Planting Movement. He is an adjunct professor at several seminaries and universities, including Central Seminary, Missio Seminary, and America Evangelical University. He is the co-founder of the Praxis Gathering, and serves on six different boards, including Reliant Mission, Missio Alliance, and Fuller Global Mission Advisory Council. He is the author of Creating a Missional Culture and co-author of The Church as Movement. His most recent book, The Scandal of Leadership, is based on his PhD research and written to provide a remedy to the problem of domineering leadership in the church. He loves to surf, travel, read, and skateboard, as well as meet new people. He enjoys photography and film and tries to attend the Sundance Film Festival whenever he can.

Jessie Cruickshank is an ordained Foursquare minister and nationally recognized expert in the fields of discipleship and neuroeducation. She has spent over two decades applying neuroscience research to spiritual formation, ministry training, and organization development. She is respected globally as a missiological thought-leader and neuro-ecclesiologist.

Jessie serves the body of Christ as a church and denominational consultant. She is the Founder of Who-ology, which seeks to equip all people to be disciplemakers. She is the Co-Founder of 5Q, which focuses on training teams around Ephesians 4, and a founding member of the Movement Leader’s Collective

Jessie holds a Master’s from Harvard in Mind, Brain, and Education. She is a published academic, author, and serves on multiple boards internationally. She currently lives in Colorado, enjoying the rivers with her family.

You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @yourbrainbyjess

Websites are WHOology and yourbrainbyjess