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Prayer and spiritual practices

Spiritual practices give members a formation rhythm beyond a class. Your church prepares the invitation, language, and structure; members decide how and when to participate. Start with one practice your church can pastor well. Test it with staff before publishing it to members.

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Daily Office

Open Discipleship → Daily Office → New plan. Configure:

• Title, active dates, and IANA timezone.
• Up to eight fixed prayer hours and their gentle bell invitations.
• Introduction and full order of prayer.
• Headings, readings, Scripture, prayers, responses, and timed silence.
• Draft, active, or archived availability.

Members choose which hours ring on their own device. Active liturgies are saved for offline use, and the local bell schedule refreshes when Daily Office opens. Live presence is anonymous and temporary. A member may see You and 3 others are praying now while an office is open. Staff cannot see identities, bell choices, individual presence, or attendance history.

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Guided Examen

Open Discipleship → Guided Examen → New Examen. Configure:

• Title and suggested evening time.
• Opening and closing words.
• Ordered reflection steps and guidance.
• Presence, gratitude, review, consolation, desolation, forgiveness, tomorrow, or custom step types.
• Optional or required written responses.
• Automatic deletion from one hour to 30 days.
• Draft, active, or archived availability.

Every Examen must include gratitude and desolation. The church owns the remaining language and order.

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Congregational fasts

Open Discipleship → Congregational Fasts → New fast. Configure:

• A one-to-90-day window and church timezone.
• Invitation, safety guidance, and closing blessing.
• At least one shared standard and one body-safe substitution.
• Up to eight total participation practices.
• Daily Scripture, reflection, and prayer.
• Draft, published, or archived availability.

Every option is presented as full participation. Members choose privately and are never asked to submit a health reason. Selected practices and daily check-ins are encrypted and owner-only. Staff see only a total participant count—not names, choices, or check-ins. Leaving the fast permanently deletes that member’s participation record.

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Lament and Wall of Tears

Open Discipleship → Lament & Wall of Tears → New liturgy. Configure:

• Invitation, opening, and closing words.
• Ordered psalm, naming, protest, petition, silence, or custom movements.
• Whether the optional Wall of Tears is available.
• Wall heading, introduction, and offering prompt.
• Permanent deletion from one to 365 days.
• Draft, active, or archived availability.

Every liturgy retains at least one psalm and one naming movement. It does not force grief toward a quick conclusion. Private writing inside the liturgy stays only in memory on the current mobile screen and is never uploaded. The Wall of Tears uses a separate blank field; private words are never copied into it. A wall offering is encrypted and waits for moderation. If approved, it appears without the author’s name. Moderators see the author only when the member explicitly permits pastoral follow-up. Approval never extends the deletion date, and the member may permanently delete the offering sooner.

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Living Church Calendar

Open Discipleship → Church Calendar → New church year. The included dates are an editable Western-calendar example. Review every date against your church tradition before activation. Configure:

• Church-year title, description, dates, and timezone.
• Member welcome.
• Two to twelve non-overlapping seasons.
• Each season’s name, dates, color, tone, invitation, and Scripture.
• Up to eight prayer, Scripture, generosity, fasting, service, rest, reflection, or custom practices per season.
• Daily, weekly, once-per-season, or flexible rhythm.
• Draft, active, or archived availability.

Only one church year may be active at a time. The member companion uses the church timezone to move from one season to the next. The calendar stores no attendance, completion, streak, or spiritual score.

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Sabbath and Retreat

Open Discipleship → Sabbath & Retreat → New rest guide. Configure:

• Sabbath or retreat type.
• Members, clergy, or everyone as the intended audience.
• Default duration from 30 minutes to seven days.
• Opening and closing invitations.
• Scripture reference.
• One to eight suggested practices.
• Draft, active, or archived availability.

Members decide whether to start, may change the duration, and can end early. Only the current rest window is retained; expired and ended windows are removed. Staff receive no participation analytics.

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Private Promise Ledger

Open Discipleship → Promise Ledger → New invitation. Configure:

• Title and explanation.
• A gentle private-review question.
• Review interval from one to 90 days.
• Whether to include active personal goals, committed Rule of Life promises, or both.
• Draft, active, or archived availability.

The ledger reads only explicit structured commitments. It never scans journals or infers promises from free-form writing. Members can add an encrypted review note, snooze an item, set it aside, or restore it. A review does not mark the source complete and creates no streak or score. When the original goal or Rule of Life promise is no longer current, its review state is removed. The dashboard shows the invitation only—not member promises, notes, due counts, or activity.

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Launch checklist for any practice

• The language sounds like your church and has been pastorally reviewed.
• Dates and timezone are correct.
• Privacy expectations are explained before participation.
• Safety language exists where the practice affects the body or sensitive personal experience.
• A staff member completed the whole member flow on a phone.
• Draft, active, published, and archived states behave as expected.
• Your ministry knows how to respond if a member asks for help.

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