Tailored
Formation that goes deeper than information.
A formation platform built on the Thinking Christian framework. Assessment. Bible study. Recalibration. For individuals and groups who are serious about mature, uncompromising faith.
The Problem
The church’s problem is not misinformation. It is misformation.
You are reading. You are listening. You are showing up, attending church, sitting in a small group. Something is still missing.
That sense is telling you something true. We serve a God who can do abundantly more than we could ask or think, and we have absorbed stories that deny or diminish him. Those stories narrow our understanding of God, his creation, and what it means to live as residents of earth and citizens of heaven. Other commitments gradually bracket Scripture out. Not through rebellion. Through drift, until the Bible no longer has room to do what it does.
The result is stunted growth that feels like stagnation. Not because God is absent from the work, but because we have stopped letting his word challenge and transform us.
This platform puts you back in serious contact with that word, and presses you to identify exactly where you have settled for less than what Scripture offers.
The diagnosis behind this platform is developed in full at The Framework →
How It Works
Reading Scripture expecting to change instead of expecting to stay the same.
This is not a content library. It is a structured encounter with the text, one that asks not only what the Bible says but what it requires of you in the circumstances of your life.
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Assessment — Where are you?
The assessment does not simply ask what you believe. It asks you to consider who you are right now. Do your Christian convictions show up in your work, your relationships, your finances, your ambitions? A guided self-reflection identifies the commitments and patterns of life that have been keeping you from reflecting God, and considers how those hindrances might be removed.
The result is a permanent baseline report naming where God’s word needs room to speak and what formation looks like from where you are.
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Targeted Study — What does the text require?
Every assessment ends with a recommended study plan, selected against your results. The plan names the formation work your situation requires and where to find it: guides, podcast series, video, and AI-facilitated study sessions. Through those, you are prompted to study God’s word against yourself, so that his word may challenge you to test God by trusting God.
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Recalibration — What has changed?
Two additional assessment sessions per year, allowing you to reconsider who you are at that moment compared to where you were. What has changed. What has not. Where Scripture has been allowed to speak. Where you are still holding it at arm’s length.
The Thinking Christian assessments are self-reflection tools, not psychological evaluations or clinical assessments. All sessions are AI-guided. Nothing generated by the platform constitutes professional theological, pastoral, or psychological counsel.
Who It Is For
For Christians who know something is missing and are ready to find it.
You do not have to be in crisis to use this platform. You just have to be honest.
Honest that the distance between what you believe and how you live is larger than it should be. Honest that Scripture has been occupying less space in how you see the world than it should. Honest that you are capable of more than the version of the Christian life you have settled into.
“To be sure, it is usually said that sin in its original form is man’s wanting to be as God. But that is only the one side of sin. The other side of such pride is hopelessness, resignation, inertia and melancholy… Temptation then consists not so much in the titanic desire to be as God, but in weakness, timidity, weariness, not wanting to be what God requires of us.”
This is for everyday Christians tired of stagnation and willing to be challenged rather than those looking to stay the same.
The platform works best for those who reflect on the questions being asked and answer as honestly as they can.
Three Parts
Sold separately. Built to work together.
The assessment
Tells you where you are and what the work is. It produces a permanent baseline report and a study plan keyed to your results.
The guides
Are the work itself — substantive biblical resources organized around the domains that shape how you live.
The platform
Holds both, adds recalibration and unlimited Bible study, and lets you see change over time.
Each is available on its own. Start where it makes sense.
The Assessments
Choose where to begin.
Reflecting God’s Order
Do our lives reflect our desire for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven?
Christian formation is not primarily a knowledge problem. Most Christians know more than they live. Reflecting God’s Order is a guided conversation that surfaces the gap, identifying where the commitments that should govern your life have been displaced by rival patterns in how you use your time, your money, your work, and your relationships. It does not ask what you believe in theory. It asks what your actual life reveals about what you believe.
The result is a permanent baseline report naming where God’s word needs room to speak and what formation looks like from where you are.
$9.99 · 30-day access
Biblical and Theological Literacy
Do you have the categories Scripture requires?
A Christian can be genuinely devout and still lack the conceptual architecture that makes Scripture intelligible in its full scope. This is not a theology exam. It is a diagnostic of how you read: whether you approach the text propositionally, devotionally, or theologically; whether you hold the load-bearing categories of covenant, kingdom, and the nature of the church; and whether those categories are operative in how you actually reason about your life.
The result is a narrative report naming what is present, what is thin, and what the Spirit’s work appears to be pressing you toward.
$9.99 · 30-day access
Useful to God
Are you positioned where God works?
D. L. Moody reached more people with the gospel than perhaps any Christian of his generation. R. A. Torrey, who knew him well, argued that Moody’s effectiveness had less to do with his gifts than with his posture, that he had positioned himself at the right angle to reflect God rather than to project himself.
This assessment works through eight characteristics evident in Moody’s life. Seven come from Torrey. One is added for this age. Moody is the illustration, not the point: these characteristics describe facets of Christ’s own life, and every Christian is called to exhibit them.
Surrendered
Setting aside ambition, security, and control, and entrusting them to God.
Prayerful
Aligning our desires with God’s will rather than bending God toward ours.
Studious
Submitting to God’s word to be governed by it, reading against ourselves.
Humble
Receiving every gift as given, and pointing beyond ourselves to Christ.
Free from the Love of Money
Holding wealth as a tool for the mission, refusing it as a god.
Consumed with Passion for the Lost
Setting aside our rights and preferences so that some might be saved.
Imbued with Power from on High
Depending on the Holy Spirit for the work rather than our own strength.
Undistracted
Refusing the stories and idols that pull our attention away from Christ.
The report identifies where those characteristics are forming in you and where they are being blocked by the rival order you have absorbed.
$9.99 · 30-day access
Digital Discernment
Is the digital world forming you faster than the church is?
The church’s formation problem is not primarily misinformation. It is misformation, the shaping of habits, instincts, and ways of seeing that happens below the level of deliberate reflection, at a pace that bypasses the communal practices by which theological instincts are tested and corrected.
Drawing on the framework developed in Digital Discernment (InterVarsity Press), this assessment surfaces how your digital habitat is forming you. It moves through four phases: how you inhabit the digital world, how you exercise discernment using the Quad, how your digital practices map onto the seven sacred-social domains, and what the results reveal about the formation work your situation most requires.
$9.99 · 30-day access
What Is Forming You
How has your vision been narrowed?
Every life is being formed by something. This assessment examines the observable facts of your life — what costs you something, what you protect, what you can and cannot see — to surface the forces that narrow vision below the level of doctrine and belief.
A short quantitative intake and a guided conversation produce a personal report naming the shape of your narrowing, the conditions sustaining it, and the practices that open vision again.
$9.99 · 30-day access
Formation Guides
Substantive biblical resources, organized around the domains that shape how you live.
Each guide stands on its own and is included with annual access.
On Earth as in Heaven
A primer on the forces that narrow your vision of God and his creation, and the practices that open it again.
$9.99
Included with annual access
Living Unmanly: Becoming Male Disciples of Jesus
A formation guide for men on what genuine discipleship requires. Not cultural masculinity. The character of Christ.
$9.99
Included with annual access
Learning to Be Studious
A practical, theologically grounded introduction to reading Scripture with care and discipline, building the habits that make formation possible.
$9.99
Included with annual access
Surrender: A 31-Day Journey
Thirty-one days of honest examination and daily reorientation, releasing what you hold and practicing dependence on God.
$9.99
Included with annual access
Pricing
Start where it makes sense.
Single Assessment
$9.99
One-time · 30-day access
Choose from Reflecting God’s Order, Biblical and Theological Literacy, Useful to God, Digital Discernment, or What Is Forming You.
- Complete the assessment you choose
- Permanent baseline report, yours to keep
- Recommended study plan keyed to your results
- 10% off annual platform access
Formation Guide
$9.99
One-time · Downloadable, yours to keep
Four guides available. Purchase individually, or receive all four with annual access.
- On Earth as in Heaven
- Living Unmanly
- Learning to Be Studious
- Surrender: A 31-Day Journey
Annual Platform
$99.99
Per year
$94.00 platform access + $5.99 missional surcharge. The missional surcharge funds scholarships and ministry training for those who cannot afford platform access.
- One assessment of your choosing
- Recalibration twice per year
- Unlimited Bible study sessions
- Full formation guide library
- Members-only podcast access
- Progress tracking and comparison reports
For Churches and Groups
Formation matures within the body of Christ.
Church Cohort
$499
Per year · 7 included seats
Choose one assessment for your cohort — that is what your group completes together this year. Includes recalibration, unlimited Bible study, and invite codes for your members.
Additional Seats
$69
Per year · Per seat
Each seat gives access to the cohort’s chosen assessment, recalibration, Bible study, and formation guides. Cohort administrators add seats from the dashboard.
A pastor forming a congregation, an elder training leaders, a teacher leading a class, or a lay leader gathering a group can each start a cohort and bring others through. The leader supplies teaching and presence. The platform supplies the structure and the depth.
Individual results roll up into cohort patterns, and cohort patterns tell a leader something no individual report can.
Common Questions
What you may be wondering.
- Where do I start?
- Start with a single assessment. At $9.99 it gives you a complete diagnostic, a permanent report, and a study plan built from your results.
- What does the study plan include?
- The plan names the formation work your results indicate and where to find it — guides, podcast series, video, and AI-facilitated study. Some of it is included with annual access. Some is available individually.
- Do I need a guide to use an assessment?
- No. The assessment and its report stand on their own. The guides are the work that follows.
- What does the annual platform add?
- Annual access covers one assessment of your choice, recalibration twice per year, unlimited Bible study sessions, the full formation guide library, and members-only podcast access.
- Do I get a discount if I start with a single assessment?
- Yes. Completing a purchased assessment produces a 10% discount code toward annual platform access.
- What is a church cohort?
- A cohort lets a pastor or ministry leader set up a shared group with member seats and one assessment chosen for the whole group.
- Are these psychological assessments?
- No. They are self-reflection tools. All sessions are AI-guided, and nothing generated by the platform constitutes professional theological, pastoral, or psychological counsel.
The Bible was never meant to leave you unchanged.
Scripture is the living word of a God who is present, active, and making claims on your life right now. This platform exists to help you meet those claims. Not by giving you more to know. By pressing you into what you already know and have not yet lived.
“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”