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Maybe you feel it… that inner ache for a deeper life with God.
Maybe you’ve hit a wall walking with Jesus or you simply sense his invitation to something more.
Maybe you’ve read or heard or met someone who revealed Jesus and his Kingdom to be as beautiful and expansive as they really are.
Maybe you’re weary of the church polarized, celebritized, scandalized, or calcified. You want the people of God and the places they gather to be good news for the world.
Maybe you’re done with Christian silos and you’re ready for Streams — not some muddled puddle of universalism but a Christ-deep confluence of Christian tradition banked by the Apostles’ Creed, flowing with wisdom down through the ages.
Maybe you long for personal transformation.
To be a better listener. A truer human.
Less angry and anxious.
More patient and kind.
More like Jesus.
But trying harder hasn’t helped.
You know you need a extreme makeover of the heart.
And you’re here for it… ready for the Master to remodel every interior room. But you need some guidance on how to cooperate without making it a do-it-yourself project.
If you go to a church — or lead a church — maybe you long for it to be transformed, too.
To become a community for Christlikeness.
Maybe you want revival.
No, it’s more than that.
Jolts of awakening must be sustained by ongoing connection to the living Christ.
What you seek is continual renewal.
The Apostle Paul wrote about this regenerative, Spirit-empowered way of being…
“Our outer self is wasting away, yet the inner self is being renewed (renovaré) day by day.” 2 Corinthians 4:16
If you long for this kind of renewal — a life not only for God but with God — then welcome. You’re in the right place, among friends in formation.
Renovaré was founded in 1988 by Richard J. Foster to give people like you a balanced vision and a practical strategy for life with God.
It is a nonprofit that seeks to be a signpost “to the ancient paths, where the good way is,” so we may “walk in it, and find rest for our souls.” Jeremiah 6:16
It is a community committed to seeking continual renewal through keeping company with Jesus and practicing what he practiced — so that by his Spirit we become people who love like he loves.
It is a part of a modern Christian spiritual formation movement that seeks not to replace local churches but to connect and breathe life into every expression of them.
There is much to explore at Renovaré: resources and guided experiences to learn and grow with others in the way of Jesus. Your journey may even lead you to a way of life we call the Renovaré Covenant.
But here’s an invitation for starters…
Join our dispersed community by signing up for our humble email list.
When you do, we’ll send you three brief emails over the next week with onramps and resources. Then each Friday you’ll get Renovaré Weekly with a heart-to-heart essay and curated Christ-centered wisdom.
Worst case, unsubscribe. Best case, God uses Renovaré for a season to help you become more like Jesus and feel a little less alone in the world.
