Spiritual Formation
What is Spiritual Formation?
At Carefree Vineyard Church, we value spiritual formation—allowing the Lord access to every part of our lives. We know this is a lifelong journey, so we intentionally pursue practices that help us grow in Christlikeness.
We explore personal practices like silence, solitude, contemplative prayer, and simply being with Jesus. And we engage community practices like formational LifeGroups, spiritual direction, inner healing prayer, and clearness committees. Growing in Jesus is something we do both alone and together.
Spiritual Direction
What is Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual Direction is an ancient Christian practice that helps people notice and respond to God’s presence in everyday life. A spiritual director serves as a companion and guide, one that comes alongside to help you listen for what God may be saying.
What Happens in a Session?
Sessions typically take place once a month for about an hour and may include prayer, quiet reflection, scripture, and conversation about your life and spiritual journey.
Benefits
Grow in awareness of God’s presence
Deepen your relationship with Jesus
Gain insight into your spiritual journey
Experience healing and transformation
Training
Spiritual Directors at have completed a two year School of Spiritual Direction and received a certification as a Spiritual Director.
Interested in meeting with a Spiritual Director?
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Inner Healing Prayer
What is Inner Healing Prayer?
Inner healing prayer is designed to bring Christ’s healing to the broken, wounded, and painful areas of our hearts and lives (and we all have them) so that we are free to respond to current situations in healthy, godly ways.
Why not just “forget the past and move on?”
The short answer? Sometimes we need help and here’s why…
Each life experience correlates to a particular pattern of neuron networks firing – and this pattern develops the first time we do anything. When we repeat an activity, we fire the same set of neuron networks. So, in a sense, life becomes a living memory because so much of what we do is an unconscious repetition of what we have done in the past.
The models we form early in life tend to emerge automatically in response to certain internal and external stimuli.
How does inner healing prayer help?
Jesus is Immanuel, which means God with us and this promise is the foundation for all we do. As painful memories are visited and Jesus reveals His Presence and truth perspective, healing happens and the memory itself changes – which, in turn, creates new neural pathways. The ultimate goal is to help us learn to perceive the Lord’s presence, and abide in an interactive connection with Jesus as we walk through life each day.
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Clearness Committee
What is a Clearness Committee?
The Clearness Committee process is based on a communal approach to discernment, guided by simple but crucial guidelines and understandings.
When there is a major life decision needing to be made, decisions such as marriage, career choices, moving, and a decision that feels complicated or you are just unsure how to proceed.
The Clearness Committee is intended to help a person find their own answers. When the Clearness Committee is understood and practiced, it is a spiritual discipline that can become a way to:
renew community in our individualistic times
free people from their isolation in decision making
counteract the unhelpful excesses we call caring
create space for Holy Spirit to move among us with healing and power
A Clearness Committee works best with no fewer than three people and no more than five people. The committee should be people whom the person trusts and should represent a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints.
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