Formation ClassES
Conversations to make us more like Jesus.
Our Formation Class: Jesus + Discipleship is designed to form and equip group leaders and apprentices in the heart of discipleship at Church in the Square — learning how to become like Jesus and help others do the same. Through four sessions, we’ll explore what it means to live as God’s beloved children in everyday life and help others do the same. Each week focuses on one of our core discipleship values — Seek Truth, Show Love, and Stay Curious — to empower our leaders to cultivate a life that reflects the grace, compassion, and curiosity of Christ in our church and city.
Each session blends teaching, discussion, and resource reflection to foster both learning and practice. Together, leaders will discover how discipleship is not just a program or meeting, but a way of life shaped by intimacy with the Father, imitation of the Son, and attentiveness to the Spirit. The aim is simple yet profound: to become people who live and lead out of love — rooted in truth, formed by grace, and marked by a deep curiosity that invites others to encounter Jesus in community.
Jesus + Discipleship
NOVEMBER 2025
Politics is everywhere right now, and for many of us, it’s exhausting, confusing, or even divisive. This class is an invitation to slow down and ask a deeper question: what does it actually look like to follow Jesus while living in our city and nation, at this moment in history? Scripture reminds us that we are citizens of heaven, and at the same time, we’re called to seek the welfare of the city where God has placed us.
By looking at key moments in Israel’s story, the life of Jesus, and the witness of the early church, this class will help us think clearly about faith, identity, and politics—without confusing our allegiance to Christ with loyalty to any party, nation, or ideology. Together, we’ll open the Bible and talk honestly about life as exiles, Jesus’ challenge to political power, and what it means to live out our heavenly citizenship here and now.
Along the way, we’ll lean into what author Arthur Brooks calls a better way forward. He writes, “The cure for what ails our society is not less conviction, but more love.” In a time of deep polarization, we’ll practice a distinctly Christian politics of love—one marked by truth, humility, and a genuine love of neighbor and even enemy. The goal isn’t winning arguments, but bearing faithful witness to Jesus in the public square.
Jesus + Politics
FEBRURARY 2026
Sexuality can be confusing. It can also be deeply personal, tender, and, for many, painful. Scripture is meant to bring clarity and healing—but if we’re honest, that hasn’t always been the experience people have had in the church. Too often, conversations about sexuality have been marked by silence, shame, or culture-war rhetoric rather than the compassion and truth of the gospel.
This class takes a different approach. Rather than starting with rules or arguments, we begin with identity and healing—who we are in Christ and how Jesus meets us in our bodies, desires, and longings. Together, we’ll open Scripture, listen carefully to one another, and wrestle honestly with hard questions in a posture of grace, truth, and curiosity.
Each week is shaped as much by conversation as by teaching. We’ll ask questions like: What does it mean to see our bodies as good and whole? How has culture shaped what we believe about sex, intimacy, and fulfillment? Where have shame or confusion distorted the church’s witness? How do we hold conviction and compassion together without losing either? What does repentance and healing actually look like in real lives? How does Jesus meet us in our desires? And what does faithful obedience look like for singles, married people, and those who feel tension between Scripture’s teaching and their lived experience?
This class isn’t about quick fixes or easy answers. It’s about becoming more like Jesus—more honest, more whole, and more formed by His love.
Jesus + Sexuality
MAY 2026
Parenting is hard. It’s beautiful and exhausting, meaningful and overwhelming—sometimes all at once. This class begins with the simple conviction that our children are neither interruptions to our spiritual lives nor idols at the center of them. They are gifts entrusted to us by God. And they’re welcomed into our lives so they can be formed, over time, as beloved sons and daughters of the Father through intentional love, guidance, and example.
Rooted in Scripture, this class invites parents to start with their own walk with Jesus. After all, we can’t lead our children somewhere we’re not going ourselves. Faith is most often shaped in ordinary moments—through presence, shared rhythms, and practices of grace lived out at home. Together, we’ll talk honestly about teaching truth, practicing loving and life-giving discipline, and cultivating curiosity through real conversation and attentive listening.
The goal isn’t perfect parenting. It’s faithful parenting—receiving our children as gifts, resisting both neglect and over-idealizing them, and forming homes where the way of Jesus is lived, talked about, and embodied with humility, joy, and grace.
Jesus + Parenting
SEPTEMBER 2026