Why Groups?

We were created to be social creatures. Family, friends. It's first instinct to get together, even for introverts who need more alone time. The question is, what do you do when you hang out? For many people, they go to religious services and are all spiritual, but then in real life or when they're hanging out with their friends God barely crosses their minds. It's like they're living double lives. The challenge is to find God in your normal everyday life and let your story become his. That's where getting together with your real friends in regular places and having honest conversations about spirituality comes in.

There's another reason. People don't change by themselves. People are changed through their interactions with others. So if you want to change you need to find some new friends, talk about different things, and see yourself in a new way. Same goes if you want to change the world. You need to create a new culture - one that's based on simple yet powerful rituals that anyone can do and rooted in groups where people can belong truly madly and deeply. For us, that ritual is gutwrenchingly honest storytelling and conversating. And that group is the one we want you to start.

You could say that telling a story is the pretext for getting together in a personal way. ~Nancy Rambusch

One more thing, actually. Of course you realize this stuff isn't new. This is exactly what Jesus did. A church was basically a group of friends who got together at someone's house to tell stories about the Messiah and enjoy their relationship with their new spiritual Dad. It was so simple and powerful that it flipped the Roman Empire. And it's still going.  

Those who tell the stories, rule the world. ~Hebrew Proverb