For each session, plan for about 1.5 hours of personal preparation — including 10 minutes for the intro video, 40 minutes to listen to and reflect on the sermon, 25 minutes to study the passage, and 15 minutes to memorize the Bible verse — followed by 1.5 hours with your group to reflect together and pray for one another. How often you choose to meet will determine how spread out the time commitment will be.

There are several ways to create a group:

• You might take an existing friendship group of two to four people and simply add an intentional spiritual element to your time together. Once you’ve completed the curriculum, you can continue meeting monthly to encourage one another in the practices, or form a new group to pass it on.
• You might create a group of two to four people from your community group and make the curriculum an additional component of your shared life together.
• You might choose to go through the program 1:1 with a spouse or a best friend.
• You might choose to go through the program 1:1 with a mentor or with one mentor and up to three mentees.

Whatever the group dynamic you pursue, the Formed curriculum will help guide you through intentional discussions and learnings to help you live out your relationship with Jesus.

Of course! Redeemer Downtown is just one small part of the broader Christian community in our city and around the world. Feel free to gather with friends from other churches or Christian communities, or even meet via Zoom with friends from different places across the globe. We’re all in this together!

No problem at all. You can engage with the curriculum at a pace that works for your Formed group. Weekly, every other week, monthly, or some variation of these will all work. The critical issue is to make your way through the whole curriculum, so you don’t end up with an unbalanced view of your discipleship habits.

Not at all. You only need one to three friends who are committed to working through the curriculum with you. You can even do it with just one other person.

Not at all. Feel free to meet via Zoom with friends from different places across the globe. 

It is completely self-paced. Follow a rhythm that works for you. Life can be unpredictable, and your Formed group can go through the sessions when and how it works best for each member of your group.

Most people will find it easiest to use the Formed mobile app (available on the App Store), though a desktop or web browser version is also available. Your Formed group can meet either in person or on a video call platform such as Zoom, following whatever rhythm works best for your group.

While that may be unfortunate, it will undoubtedly happen from time to time. You can either continue with a smaller Formed group or carry on individually. The latter isn’t ideal—God has designed us to grow best in the company of others—but it is still an option.

No, the Formed platform is completely free for Redeemer Downtown congregants and their spiritual friends. We offer a $10 physical journal that provides space for notes, prayers, and reflections and keeps your conversations anchored in truth to help you see Jesus more clearly with every page. However, it is completely optional, and all participants receive a free digital version when they sign up.