RHYTHM OF GRACE

A CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION

What is Rhythm of Grace?

Rhythm  of Grace is a Christian ministry that teaches and practices contemplative prayer and classical spiritual disciplines as a foundation for promoting the life-long process of Christian spiritual formation. We are a dispersed and distinctive community of believers from all over the world, committed to a common rule of life that allows us to continually learn to:

  1. Listen for God’s voice

  2. Love those around us

  3. Live out following Jesus in our daily lives

Our Rhythms

Utilizing daily prayers, spiritual disciplines, retreats, spiritual direction, and pilgrimage, we assist believers in their faith-journeys toward deeper connection with Jesus and deeper love for the world around them.

What Is Spiritual Formation?

Spiritual formation defined:

  • Spiritual Formation is the process of being conformed to the image of Christ for the sake of the world around us.

How does this occur?

  • The process of spiritual formation involves the Holy Spirit weaving through the complexities, circumstances, and choices, of our lives to conform us to the image of Christ.

What we do:

  • Through prayer, various retreat styles, spiritual direction, education, and other spiritual disciplines, we can put ourselves into a place to recognize and receive God‘s empowering presence in our lives.

A Brief History of Rhythm of Grace

Rhythm of Grace emerged in the year 2000 along with many changes that were coming in a new century. Focusing on a misunderstood but popular topic of spiritual formation, a new center to explore the beauty and tension of transformation began to blossom.

As a center for spiritual formation, Rhythm of Grace was helping followers of Jesus understand the implications of this on-going discipleship imperative. Most Christians in the West had come to understand discipleship as a course, a class, information to be learned, a world view to be created.

Spiritual formation emerged as a focus that went beyond the education of Christians to look at the development of the virtues Jesus was eager to see duplicated. A life lived from these virtues would change the world.

Rhythm of Grace conducts classes, but as importantly, provides opportunities to practice together the lifestyle of following Jesus in our given circumstances and places. Through both the teachings and practices, a community of individuals has emerged to support and encourage one another. It is not a community like a typical church. What binds us together, as we are dispersed, is our understanding of a lifestyle of listening and overflow which Jesus describes in John 15.

We find our historical roots in the Christian desert traditions, Celtic Christian traditions, Protestant reformation and Catholic reformation. Igniting our imaginations, these broad roots provoke fresh thinking in the modern ways of following Jesus as our Lord and Savior in everyday life.

We are made up of individuals who come from all backgrounds of the Christian faith. Not focusing on what makes up our individual doctrinal differences, but how we can learn from those differences as a part of our transformation towards Christlikeness.

CRAIG BABB

After serving in churches and the parish structure for over 25 years, Rhythm of Grace was founded in 2000 by Craig Babb. Craig has his M.Div degree from Denver Seminary and his Ed.D from the Graduate Theological Foundation. His area of emphasis in his doctoral work was in adult spiritual development. He is ordained in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, serving as chaplain for his presbytery. He holds a teachers diploma from the Evangelical Teachers Training Association and has completed two certification programs in spiritual direction. Craig is also the Midwest representative and faculty member of The School of Spiritual Direction for The Leadership Institute, in Orange, CA.

PAUL HARROW

After volunteering in churches for many years, Paul was called to a new ministry serving on the Board of Directors for Rhythm of Grace in 2006. Since that time, he has served Rhythm of Grace in various capacities including completion of coursework in spiritual direction. He is currently the Director of Pilgrimage Ministries. As Director, he plans and leads groups on international pilgrimage adventures to Holy Island in the U.K. His future vision is to continue serving Christ by growing Rhythm of Grace and its pilgrimage ministry. With goals to amplify, simplify and enrich the modern Christian pilgrimage experience, Paul seeks to make this powerful spiritual discipline better known, and accessible to everyone.

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