Forming a Faithful and Focused Agenda A practice of intentional ordering for the Season of Noticing Purpose of the Practice Forming a Faithful Agenda helps a leadership body align its meetings with the kind of work God is calling it to do in a particular season. In the Season of Noticing, the purpose of an …
Permission for Uncertainty A relational practice for the Season of Noticing. Purpose of the Practice Permission for Uncertainty helps a community remain present to ambiguity, tension, and unresolved questions without rushing toward clarity, certainty, or control. This practice trains relationships—between people and with God—to tolerate not knowing as a faithful posture rather than a failure of …
Naming What Is Present A practice of communal discernment for the Season of Noticing Purpose of the Practice Naming What Is Present helps a community tell the truth about its current reality without rushing to interpret, evaluate, or fix it. This practice trains a group to describe what it is experiencing—patterns, tensions, energy, absences, and surprises—before …
Prayerful Listening A practice of communal attentiveness for the Season of Noticing Purpose of the Practice Prayerful Listening and Shared Silence trains a community to notice what is present—in Scripture, in themselves, in one another, and in the room—without rushing to interpret, evaluate, or fix. This practice is intentionally incomplete. It forms attentiveness rather than clarity, …