Integrated Formation Matrix

Doing

Practices

• Explore foundations of Christian faith (e.g. Alpha Course). Join a group to ask big questions without pressure.
• Scripture. Reading a Gospel slowly and letting it ask its own questions.
• Prayer. Trying a simple prayer — even a single honest sentence.
• Gathering. Visiting a church service or listening to a trusted teacher.
• Reflection. Keeping a notebook of questions and quiet noticings.
• Pause. Pausing once a day for a breath and a thought of God.

Being

Inner Formation

• Curiosity. Letting yourself be honestly curious about God.
• Awareness. Noticing moments of awe, longing, or quiet wonder.
• Openness. Receiving the idea that God may already be drawing you.
• Honesty. Being honest with yourself about doubt and hope.
• Posturing. Willing to be met exactly where you are.
• Self-Reliance. Admitting that 'self-management' has limits.

Harvest

Purpose & Community

• Relationship. Walking honestly alongside someone who follows Jesus.
• Inquiry. Asking a friend or family member about their faith.
• Community. Joining a seekers' study or book group.
• Environment. Letting kindness and patience shape everyday spaces.
• Service. Offering one small act of care without needing to explain it.
• Vulnerability. Seeking a safe space to voice doubts without judgment.
• Compassion. Letting one person's situation actually move you — and acting on it in a small, human way.

Doing

Regular Disciplines

• Prayer. Praying for guidance at least several times a week.
• Scripture. Reflecting frequently on the meaning and impact of the Word.
• Rhythm. Spending unhurried time in Scripture and prayer most days.
• Sabbath. Beginning a weekly rhythm of one block of true rest.
• Pause. Practicing short daily pauses (Selah) to attend to God.
• Financials. Moving from random giving to a disciplined percentage.

Being

Heart Posture

• Salvation. Believing that nothing I do can earn my salvation; it is by grace.
• Identity. Beginning to see yourself as loved before you are useful.
• The Trinity. Believing God is the one true God — Father, Son, and Spirit.
• Authority. Trusting Scripture's view of God to shape your own.
• Honesty. Bringing real feelings to God instead of tidying them first.
• Surrender. Letting Christ guide daily decisions rather than self-will.
• Tenderness. Noticing where hurt, fear, or pride may be quietly at work in a relationship — and bringing it honestly to God.
• Integrity. Beginning to notice the small gap between who you are alone with God and who you are in a room — and quietly asking Him to close it.

Harvest

Transformation

• Service. Serving the church in a consistent way (at least once a month).
• Community. Belonging to a regular small group or study that knows you.
• Witness. Sharing simply with others what God is teaching you.
• Stewardship. Beginning to steward your time and attention with prayer.
• Mentorship. Welcoming a more mature believer to walk with you.
• Reconciliation. Resolving a long-standing issue through forgiveness.
• Compassion. Noticing whose burden God is putting on your heart this season — and letting it shape how you pray, give, or show up.

Doing

Abiding Disciplines

• Prayer. Praying to seek God's guidance daily (instead of frequently).
• Scripture. Reflecting on the Word frequently as a primary anchor.
• Silence. Stillness — not just words — woven into prayer.
• Sabbath. Keeping a rhythm of true rest that honors God.
• Study. Joining an intensive study (like BSF) or study group.
• Direction. Regular sessions to discern God's voice in your life.
• Fasting. Regular intercession for your community or city.

Being

Inner Sanctification

• Presence. Believing that a personal God is actively involved in your life.
• Examination. Noticing and confessing pride, fear, or envy.
• Submission. Surrendering your own plans and preferences to God's lead.
• Character. Responding with patience, gentleness, and humility.
• Sanctification. Regular self-examination, confession, and repentance.
• Acceptance. Receiving God's love as the primary fuel for your actions.
• Belovedness. Resting in identity as a beloved son or daughter of God.
• Forgiveness. Letting the Spirit name a specific person or resentment you'd rather avoid — and sitting with it before God before deciding what to do.
• Integrity. The person God sees in secret and the person others see becoming one person — slowly, by grace, not performance.

Harvest

Kingdom Stewardship

• Outreach. Having six or more meaningful spiritual conversations a year.
• Tithing. Giving ten percent or more to the church.
• Service. Serving, encouraging, or praying for others as a daily habit.
• Belonging. Belonging to a community that walks closely alongside.
• Equipping. Moving from 'doing for others' to 'empowering others.'
• Love. Loving and serving those who are not easy to love.
• Influence. Faithfully using the influence God has placed in your care.
• Compassion. Staying near to suffering rather than turning away — letting the love you've received become the way you stay present with others.

Doing

Anchor Disciplines

• Scripture. Reflecting on Scripture daily (rather than frequently).
• Solitude. Sustained solitude and silence as a settled rhythm of life.
• Contemplation. Practicing Lectio Divina as a daily anchor.
• Simplicity. Fasting or simplicity practiced as the Spirit leads.
• Companion. Walking with a spiritual director or mature companion.
• Worship. Woven through ordinary work and small obediences.
• Intercession. Making deep daily intercession a primary life-work.

Being

Settled Identity

• Authority. Believing the Bible has decisive authority over all I say and do.
• Lordship. Desiring and deciding that Jesus is first in your life.
• Identity. Embracing that you exist solely to know, love, and serve God.
• Settledness. Identity as 'Beloved' — quiet to approval or applause.
• Affection. Wanting God Himself more than His gifts.
• Indifference. Content regardless of personal success or failure.
• Repentance. Honest turning held in the kindness of the Father.
• Unguarded Love. Living unprotected in relationships — quick to forgive, slow to self-defend, willing to let love cost something.
• Integrity. One undivided life — what you pray, what you do, and what you are quietly cohering in Christ.

Harvest

Kingdom Presence

• Sacrifice. Willing to risk everything important in life for Jesus Christ.
• Presence. Being a Christ-centered presence in every place you are sent.
• Mentoring. Walking closely with others to help them grow.
• Stewardship. Managing work, money, and influence as God's, not your own.
• Mission. Joining God where He is already at work — at cost when needed.
• Legacy. Planting seeds for movements that outlive your time.
• Justice. Using influence to address systemic needs or injustice.
• Compassion. Christ's own heart for people becoming the steady undertow of your life — quiet, costly, unhurried.