Beer Church & Spiritual Wellness

How is Beer Church connected to our spiritual wellness?

Great question.

It’s all in how we do & think about church. I’ll answer this in 3 parts:

1. Unlearning

Many of us were never taught to connect church to our overall health and wellbeing.

Traditionally, church was more about praying and obeying - believing correctly, rule-following and submitting to authority than our personal wellness. Church functioned more like a lecture hall than a gym. One - you sit, watch and agree. The other - you get up and get moving.

Fortunately, our wellness was central to Jesus’ mission (John 5:6). Beer Church is a church with your wellness at the center. This requires unlearning, honest questions, fresh approaches and most importantly - letting go.

2. Curiosity

Generally speaking, churches tend to focus on having the right answers (and beliefs) rather than holding space for WHOLE human experience. Ironically, being right becomes less important the more we get know our neighbors.

How do we hold this sacred space? One word: Curiosity.

Curiosity is a sign of spiritual health and it all begins with human connection, an open heart and really good questions. Jesus asked 307 questions, was asked 183 and only answered 3 directly. It was less about the answers for Jesus and more about asking good questions and treating people with dignity. We gather around tables for this purpose.

Beer Church is a question-friendly space that elevates connection > answers. Curiosity is healthy.

3. Tables

Church, for a lot of people, revolves around sermons (usually shared by the same person)… Beer Church revolves around tables. We have a speaker, yes, but more-so for a organizing/unifying principle (our speaker changes every month).

The shining star at Beer Church is not the speaker- it’s THE TABLE.

It takes courage and engagement to sit with people you just met to share your stories and connect spiritually. It’s not easy—we get it. Beer helps. We believe humanity needs more table centered moments where every voice is heard & valued. For our spiritual thriving, yes, but for our collective progress too. And who knows? What if one meaningful conversation in a judgement-free space might just change the world?

I’ll cheers to that.

- Bryan

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