GW 4: Recovering. From Brokenness and Addiction to Blessedness and Community
Guerrilla Webinar 4:
Recovering: From Brokenness and Addiction to Blessedness and Community
This Guerrilla Webinar course will examine the widespread phenomenon of addictions and attachments—not only related to drugs and alcohol—that threatens to steal away our created purpose in Jesus.
It will help students explore the root causes of addiction; the danger of attaching our passions to anything other than God; the general failure of Church and society to help people through their pain; and the invitation Jesus makes to live together in holistic freedom. Jesus’ antidote to the pain and isolation that leads to addiction is Beatitude Community with him and with each other. We will look at how the Beatitudes speak to our deepest human condition and offer us hope to overcome our attachments and disordered desires.
10 Sessions: Thursdays, 12:00 - 1:00 PM, September 17 - November 19, 2020
Due to the global pandemic we are offering this module as a weekly training via Zoom. If you are unable to attend the live sessions, we are offering a special course which will be uploaded for you to go through at your own pace and on your own schedule at a discounted price of $110
September 17: Broken
Examining the root causes of addiction in pain, trauma, and societal displacement. How these root causes relate to the Fall and to our created purpose
September 24: Blessed
Examining Jesus’ prescription for our brokenness, as revealed in the word “blessed” and in the invitation into his Beatitude Life. This is what is means to be fully human, to live out our created identity and purpose.
October 1: Poverty of Spirit
How the moment of clarity—that I cannot save myself—brings us to the humility and desperation that is the necessary starting point of any journey of faith and recovery. How this is practiced in community, and how this confronts a culture that idolizes individualism, self-sufficiency, and self-actualization.
October 8: Mourning
How we learn to encounter our pain in terms of both brokenness and sin. This requires openness and vulnerability, and leads us away from our numbing practices and our worldly sorrow (which leads to death) and towards lament, godly sorrow, and repentance. How this is practiced in community, and how this confronts a culture that wants to be insulated against pain, sadness, and death, and so prescribes all manner of false comforts.
October 15: Meekness
How we avoid the perils of rage and apathy in the face of a broken, painful, and sinful world and heart. How meekness is about learning to stand, balanced and secure upon the rock of Jesus, in a world of temptation and trial. How this is practiced in community, and how this confronts an outrage or apathy culture.
October 22: Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
How we learn to order our disordered desires. Our displacement has led us to lust and envy, steal and kill, because we hunger and thirst after things other than righteousness. This includes drugs and alcohol, but also all our other attachments. How God wants to order our hearts and our minds toward Him and toward the goodness He has for us. How this is practiced in community and how this confronts a culture that profits from our addiction and disorder.
October 29: Mercy
How we learn to give and receive mercy. How we can learn to be honest about our pain and our sin without spiraling into self-loathing and self-destruction, because we encounter the most Merciful God in Jesus Christ. And how can we learn to offer mercy to others from this place of mercy-received. How this is practiced in community, and how this confronts a culture that thrives on keeping records of wrongs.
November 5: Purity of Heart
How the word “Purity” needs to be re-understood, away from moralizing or legalism (reinforced by the concepts of “being clean” and “clean time” in addictions circles) and towards wholeness, relationship, and devotion. The goal is to fix our eyes on Jesus, our author and perfecter, and to see the goodness of God in the land of the living. This involves heart contemplation, which means encountering deeper levels of sorrow and unbelief, but also even deeper levels of God’s created purpose in us. How this is practiced in community and how this confronts a culture that marks people as perpetually “impure”.
November 12: Peacemaking
How our identity as children of God leads to our work as peacemakers and reconcilers. How un-addressed relational brokenness is a major factor in ongoing addiction. How recovery takes the process of confession and amends-making far more seriously than much of the Western Church, and how this is a vital component of living in freedom. How peacemaking is practiced in community and how this confronts a culture of either non-confrontation or of disembodied accusation.
November 19: Persecution
How a commitment to righteous, Beatitude Community—wherein addictions and attachments are named and overcome together through the invitation of Jesus—will invite the world’s suspicion and enmity. How identifying and rejecting idols will always touch a nerve with people who worship them. How this persecution will often come from inside the Church or Recovery communities. How important it is to have supportive, ongoing Beatitude Communities, which witness to the Kingdom of God.
Entry Fee:
$135 USD -LIVE TEACHING WEBINAR ($30.00 of which funds trainings in Africa and the Global South)
$110 USD -SELF PACE WEBINAR
Partial and full scholarships are available upon request. Contact Bob@tierra-nueva.org for details.
Instructor:
Aaron White is the National Director of 24-7 Prayer Canada. He has been a pastor, missioner, justice worker, and prayer instigator in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver for the past 17 years, where he lives with his wife and four children in a community home. He is the Resident Theologian at Jacob's Well, the Vancouver representative of the International Association for Refugees, and a teacher at the Westminster Theological Centre in the UK.
He is the co-author of Revolution and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Kingdom of God; co-creator of The Creative Way Down discipleship resource; and author of Recovering: From Brokenness and Addiction to Blessedness and Community.
Suggested Reading:
Recovering: From Brokenness and Addiction to Blessedness and Community. Aaron White
Addiction and Grace. Gerald May
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Gabor Mate
Gregory of Nyssa: Sermons on the Beatitudes. Michael Glerup
brucekalexander.com. Bruce Alexander
Guerrilla Webinar 4:
Recovering: From Brokenness and Addiction to Blessedness and Community
This Guerrilla Webinar course will examine the widespread phenomenon of addictions and attachments—not only related to drugs and alcohol—that threatens to steal away our created purpose in Jesus.
It will help students explore the root causes of addiction; the danger of attaching our passions to anything other than God; the general failure of Church and society to help people through their pain; and the invitation Jesus makes to live together in holistic freedom. Jesus’ antidote to the pain and isolation that leads to addiction is Beatitude Community with him and with each other. We will look at how the Beatitudes speak to our deepest human condition and offer us hope to overcome our attachments and disordered desires.
10 Sessions: Thursdays, 12:00 - 1:00 PM, September 17 - November 19, 2020
Due to the global pandemic we are offering this module as a weekly training via Zoom. If you are unable to attend the live sessions, we are offering a special course which will be uploaded for you to go through at your own pace and on your own schedule at a discounted price of $110
September 17: Broken
Examining the root causes of addiction in pain, trauma, and societal displacement. How these root causes relate to the Fall and to our created purpose
September 24: Blessed
Examining Jesus’ prescription for our brokenness, as revealed in the word “blessed” and in the invitation into his Beatitude Life. This is what is means to be fully human, to live out our created identity and purpose.
October 1: Poverty of Spirit
How the moment of clarity—that I cannot save myself—brings us to the humility and desperation that is the necessary starting point of any journey of faith and recovery. How this is practiced in community, and how this confronts a culture that idolizes individualism, self-sufficiency, and self-actualization.
October 8: Mourning
How we learn to encounter our pain in terms of both brokenness and sin. This requires openness and vulnerability, and leads us away from our numbing practices and our worldly sorrow (which leads to death) and towards lament, godly sorrow, and repentance. How this is practiced in community, and how this confronts a culture that wants to be insulated against pain, sadness, and death, and so prescribes all manner of false comforts.
October 15: Meekness
How we avoid the perils of rage and apathy in the face of a broken, painful, and sinful world and heart. How meekness is about learning to stand, balanced and secure upon the rock of Jesus, in a world of temptation and trial. How this is practiced in community, and how this confronts an outrage or apathy culture.
October 22: Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
How we learn to order our disordered desires. Our displacement has led us to lust and envy, steal and kill, because we hunger and thirst after things other than righteousness. This includes drugs and alcohol, but also all our other attachments. How God wants to order our hearts and our minds toward Him and toward the goodness He has for us. How this is practiced in community and how this confronts a culture that profits from our addiction and disorder.
October 29: Mercy
How we learn to give and receive mercy. How we can learn to be honest about our pain and our sin without spiraling into self-loathing and self-destruction, because we encounter the most Merciful God in Jesus Christ. And how can we learn to offer mercy to others from this place of mercy-received. How this is practiced in community, and how this confronts a culture that thrives on keeping records of wrongs.
November 5: Purity of Heart
How the word “Purity” needs to be re-understood, away from moralizing or legalism (reinforced by the concepts of “being clean” and “clean time” in addictions circles) and towards wholeness, relationship, and devotion. The goal is to fix our eyes on Jesus, our author and perfecter, and to see the goodness of God in the land of the living. This involves heart contemplation, which means encountering deeper levels of sorrow and unbelief, but also even deeper levels of God’s created purpose in us. How this is practiced in community and how this confronts a culture that marks people as perpetually “impure”.
November 12: Peacemaking
How our identity as children of God leads to our work as peacemakers and reconcilers. How un-addressed relational brokenness is a major factor in ongoing addiction. How recovery takes the process of confession and amends-making far more seriously than much of the Western Church, and how this is a vital component of living in freedom. How peacemaking is practiced in community and how this confronts a culture of either non-confrontation or of disembodied accusation.
November 19: Persecution
How a commitment to righteous, Beatitude Community—wherein addictions and attachments are named and overcome together through the invitation of Jesus—will invite the world’s suspicion and enmity. How identifying and rejecting idols will always touch a nerve with people who worship them. How this persecution will often come from inside the Church or Recovery communities. How important it is to have supportive, ongoing Beatitude Communities, which witness to the Kingdom of God.
Entry Fee:
$135 USD -LIVE TEACHING WEBINAR ($30.00 of which funds trainings in Africa and the Global South)
$110 USD -SELF PACE WEBINAR
Partial and full scholarships are available upon request. Contact Bob@tierra-nueva.org for details.
Instructor:
Aaron White is the National Director of 24-7 Prayer Canada. He has been a pastor, missioner, justice worker, and prayer instigator in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver for the past 17 years, where he lives with his wife and four children in a community home. He is the Resident Theologian at Jacob's Well, the Vancouver representative of the International Association for Refugees, and a teacher at the Westminster Theological Centre in the UK.
He is the co-author of Revolution and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Kingdom of God; co-creator of The Creative Way Down discipleship resource; and author of Recovering: From Brokenness and Addiction to Blessedness and Community.
Suggested Reading:
Recovering: From Brokenness and Addiction to Blessedness and Community. Aaron White
Addiction and Grace. Gerald May
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Gabor Mate
Gregory of Nyssa: Sermons on the Beatitudes. Michael Glerup
brucekalexander.com. Bruce Alexander
Guerrilla Webinar 4:
Recovering: From Brokenness and Addiction to Blessedness and Community
This Guerrilla Webinar course will examine the widespread phenomenon of addictions and attachments—not only related to drugs and alcohol—that threatens to steal away our created purpose in Jesus.
It will help students explore the root causes of addiction; the danger of attaching our passions to anything other than God; the general failure of Church and society to help people through their pain; and the invitation Jesus makes to live together in holistic freedom. Jesus’ antidote to the pain and isolation that leads to addiction is Beatitude Community with him and with each other. We will look at how the Beatitudes speak to our deepest human condition and offer us hope to overcome our attachments and disordered desires.
10 Sessions: Thursdays, 12:00 - 1:00 PM, September 17 - November 19, 2020
Due to the global pandemic we are offering this module as a weekly training via Zoom. If you are unable to attend the live sessions, we are offering a special course which will be uploaded for you to go through at your own pace and on your own schedule at a discounted price of $110
September 17: Broken
Examining the root causes of addiction in pain, trauma, and societal displacement. How these root causes relate to the Fall and to our created purpose
September 24: Blessed
Examining Jesus’ prescription for our brokenness, as revealed in the word “blessed” and in the invitation into his Beatitude Life. This is what is means to be fully human, to live out our created identity and purpose.
October 1: Poverty of Spirit
How the moment of clarity—that I cannot save myself—brings us to the humility and desperation that is the necessary starting point of any journey of faith and recovery. How this is practiced in community, and how this confronts a culture that idolizes individualism, self-sufficiency, and self-actualization.
October 8: Mourning
How we learn to encounter our pain in terms of both brokenness and sin. This requires openness and vulnerability, and leads us away from our numbing practices and our worldly sorrow (which leads to death) and towards lament, godly sorrow, and repentance. How this is practiced in community, and how this confronts a culture that wants to be insulated against pain, sadness, and death, and so prescribes all manner of false comforts.
October 15: Meekness
How we avoid the perils of rage and apathy in the face of a broken, painful, and sinful world and heart. How meekness is about learning to stand, balanced and secure upon the rock of Jesus, in a world of temptation and trial. How this is practiced in community, and how this confronts an outrage or apathy culture.
October 22: Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness
How we learn to order our disordered desires. Our displacement has led us to lust and envy, steal and kill, because we hunger and thirst after things other than righteousness. This includes drugs and alcohol, but also all our other attachments. How God wants to order our hearts and our minds toward Him and toward the goodness He has for us. How this is practiced in community and how this confronts a culture that profits from our addiction and disorder.
October 29: Mercy
How we learn to give and receive mercy. How we can learn to be honest about our pain and our sin without spiraling into self-loathing and self-destruction, because we encounter the most Merciful God in Jesus Christ. And how can we learn to offer mercy to others from this place of mercy-received. How this is practiced in community, and how this confronts a culture that thrives on keeping records of wrongs.
November 5: Purity of Heart
How the word “Purity” needs to be re-understood, away from moralizing or legalism (reinforced by the concepts of “being clean” and “clean time” in addictions circles) and towards wholeness, relationship, and devotion. The goal is to fix our eyes on Jesus, our author and perfecter, and to see the goodness of God in the land of the living. This involves heart contemplation, which means encountering deeper levels of sorrow and unbelief, but also even deeper levels of God’s created purpose in us. How this is practiced in community and how this confronts a culture that marks people as perpetually “impure”.
November 12: Peacemaking
How our identity as children of God leads to our work as peacemakers and reconcilers. How un-addressed relational brokenness is a major factor in ongoing addiction. How recovery takes the process of confession and amends-making far more seriously than much of the Western Church, and how this is a vital component of living in freedom. How peacemaking is practiced in community and how this confronts a culture of either non-confrontation or of disembodied accusation.
November 19: Persecution
How a commitment to righteous, Beatitude Community—wherein addictions and attachments are named and overcome together through the invitation of Jesus—will invite the world’s suspicion and enmity. How identifying and rejecting idols will always touch a nerve with people who worship them. How this persecution will often come from inside the Church or Recovery communities. How important it is to have supportive, ongoing Beatitude Communities, which witness to the Kingdom of God.
Entry Fee:
$135 USD -LIVE TEACHING WEBINAR ($30.00 of which funds trainings in Africa and the Global South)
$110 USD -SELF PACE WEBINAR
Partial and full scholarships are available upon request. Contact Bob@tierra-nueva.org for details.
Instructor:
Aaron White is the National Director of 24-7 Prayer Canada. He has been a pastor, missioner, justice worker, and prayer instigator in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver for the past 17 years, where he lives with his wife and four children in a community home. He is the Resident Theologian at Jacob's Well, the Vancouver representative of the International Association for Refugees, and a teacher at the Westminster Theological Centre in the UK.
He is the co-author of Revolution and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Kingdom of God; co-creator of The Creative Way Down discipleship resource; and author of Recovering: From Brokenness and Addiction to Blessedness and Community.
Suggested Reading:
Recovering: From Brokenness and Addiction to Blessedness and Community. Aaron White
Addiction and Grace. Gerald May
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Gabor Mate
Gregory of Nyssa: Sermons on the Beatitudes. Michael Glerup
brucekalexander.com. Bruce Alexander