THE SCHOOL OF DISCIPLESHIP
What happened to rabbinical discipleship? Join us in resurrecting the rabbi-disciple paradigm.
THE PUBLISHING HOUSE
Publish your book and support a worthy cause at the same time. Christian non-fiction only.
THE PODCAST
As Beth Ab, we live as a unified redemptive family at the intersection of community, education, and worship—inviting others into the incredible love we have for one another as we become the change we desire to see.
THE BOOK
This is a challenging, eye-opening journey back to God and to one another. But for those who have the courage to face the giants in faith, relationships, and culture, there is a land flowing with milk and honey on the other side.
THE PROBLEM
...loneliness, fear, disunity, busyness, and chaos...
As the most lonely generation to ever walk the planet, we are drowning in a tsunami of record-breaking levels of anxiety, addiction, depression, and fear. To make matters even worse, traditional reprieves such as faith, church, family, friendship, and counseling have often proven futile as these paradigms have moved increasingly downstream of a culture in which people have been commodified into simply cold, self-serving capital. As a result, despite the vast amounts of time and money invested in searching for remedies, many have found themselves frustratingly unchanged, unhealed, unconnected, and unfruitful.
THE SOLUTION
We were made for more...way, way more.
If that's your story, then consider joining us in resurrecting the Biblical paradigm of the Beth Ab in redeeming our relationship to God, to one another, and to our own stories. And if not for you, then consider the impact of the "transformed you" on your entire sphere of influence: family, friends, colleagues, organizations, and even the people you have yet to meet—not to mention the experiences and the opportunities you will inevitably discover in paying your impact forward.
THE PLAN
Have you ever considered moving into your church?
I didn't think so. But it doesn't matter, because I'm guessing it's not on offer. But it is on offer here!
We are currently identifying a number of individuals and families to live and serve as hosts and operations specialists on the future campus of a combined community center, school of discipleship, retreat center, coaching and counseling center, media producer, and business incubator.
The goal is for these community members to be the church in meeting daily and personifying the description of the early church in Acts 2:42-47.
Consider joining what we hope will eventually be a worldwide movement in living in self-sustainable communities as incubators for Christian living and mission. After all, Jesus said we would be known by our love for one another—and by our perfect unity.
Learn more about partnering togetherTHE JOURNEY
Move from the chaos of division to the shalom of the integrated life.
MOVE FROM THIS
Is your life a busy, anxious, disjointed mess? Are you being pulled a hundred different directions by a hundred different people and affiliations? Does it feel chaotic? Then join the club. But even if it's normal, it's still no way to live.
TO THIS
What if every sphere of life coalesced into a single integrated center? What if the chaos could be subdued by the peace that not only indwells in you, but emanates from you in bringing order & shalom to a broken world.
LIKE THIS
The integrated life is a prerequisite for mission. Much like the military, Christianity is a way of life that centers us and binds us in love to God and to one another in order to do mission together in unity.
Dear Friend—
Today, we are the most anxious, lonely generation to ever walk the planet. And yet as today's churches are positioned increasingly downstream of culture, we find ourselves no less isolated than our secular peers. And yet...
It was the bond of community that served as the foundation for Jesus' entire ministry.
When Jesus walked the earth in the first century, the synagogues and eventually the early churches were characterized as community centers, places of prayer, courtrooms, schools, and even guesthouses. Plus, each member of the community had a regular and meaningful role in participating in the life of the church. On top of that, the location of these early local churches would have been just a stone's throw from the apartment style housing complexes called insulae where the community lived together as large extended "families" of God's people. These families were structured in what was referred to as the beth ab (the father's house) in which each member committed themselves unconditionally to the care and redemption of one another. Whether on the mission in major Roman cities or in Jesus' very Jewish ministry base of Galilee, people did not forsake their historic model for living. In other words...
Their togetherness as a spiritual family was the centrifugal force that launched them into the mission.
It is just as Jesus said, "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:35). Now, at least here in the West, we don't have a touchpoint to that level of connection.
We likewise no longer have an analog to the rabbi-talmid (disciple) relationship that stood out so brilliantly as a beacon of awe and aspiration in the first century. This was a years-long 24/7 mentorship that actually legally bound a rabbi to his disciple as a father to a son. Tragically...
Without the indispensable platform of community, the ancient paradigm of discipleship that flourished in its embodiment in Jesus, Paul, and others is now no more than an unfamiliar relic of a forgotten world.
And when we consider the incredible character and fruitfulness of Jesus' disciples in persevering even unto death (they all died as martyrs), the loss of this awesome paradigm becomes all the more tragic.
But together we can change that. Won't you join us in a commitment to resurrecting not only these lost paradigms of community and discipleship, but the passion and the devotion that embodied them in order that we might become catalysts for courageously carrying the message of Jesus to not only our own cities and towns but to the nations.
Because of Jesus—with you and for you,
Aaron Little
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