Spiritual Growth at The Vine

At The Vine, want to follow Jesus together through holistic discipleship:

The ways we focus on this is by growing in our relationship with God, becoming healthier humans, and cultivating healthier engagement with the world.

Summer Cohorts 2025

These gatherings create space to connect, reflect, and engage around meaningful topics.  Cohorts are designed to be flexible, relational and practice based.  Here’s what we’re offering this Summer:

  • Dopamine Detox - A practical, neuroscience-informed cohort to help you set boundaries with devices and rebuild a healthy relationship with your attention and motivation.

  • Churches That Control: Recognizing and Recovering -A space to explore the subtle dynamics that make some church cultures spiritually coercive—and how they impact our minds, bodies, and faith journeys.

  • Poetry & Potluck - An informal gathering to share a meal and the poetry that’s moving us—written by us or by others. Come to connect, listen, and linger.

  • Women’s Bible Study: The Gospel on the Ground -A study through the early church in Acts, exploring how the message of Jesus moved through ordinary people—and what that means for us today.

  • Deepening the Soul for Justice -A reflective journey through this rich book on spiritual formation and justice, designed to help you cultivate an inner life that can sustain outward work.


Our Spiritual Growth Ministries at the Vine have a few distinctives:

  • Integrated - we seek to experience spiritual power expressing itself in integration

  • Third Way Spaces - we seek to create a place of safety and inclusion where individuals can explore their beliefs

  • Facilitate connection with God - we seek to reinforce an individual's connection with God (rather than dependency upon a teacher or leader)

  • Experiential - we seek to experience God's truths rather than simply learning or studying

  • Relational - we look for God to move and grow us through relationships

  • Processing & Practicing - learning is not growth; we seek to process and apply what we learn in order to grow


If you have any questions, email fabs@thevineaustin.org.