A 6-week Bible study to go deeper with God and your small group
Wholehearted Living is a guided Bible study for Christians who want more than another discussion. In six weeks, your group will work through Scripture reflections, short teaching videos, and simple relational practices that help you connect more honestly with God and each other.
Start with your small group, your spouse and another couple, or two or three people from church. No trained leader required.
Wholehearted Living helps you slow down and bring biblical insights into deeper relationships.
Most Bible studies help you learn more. Wholehearted Living helps you slow down and bring what you are learning into honest relationship with God and fellow Christians.
Each week gives your group a simple pattern: read Scripture, reflect with God, practice a relational skill, and meet for a guided conversation. You will not need to invent questions, teach a lesson, or become the expert in the room. The guidebook walks you through the process.
This is a study for people who want their faith to move from information into real connection.
Everything your group needs for six weeks.
Daily Scripture reflections
Four days each week, you will spend about 15 to 20 minutes with a short Scripture passage and guided questions that help you pay attention to what is happening in your life with God.
Weekly teaching videos
Each week starts with a short overview video that introduces the theme your group will practice together.
Skill-building videos
Your group will learn simple skills for honest Christian community, including naming what you feel, listening without fixing, responding with empathy, and creating a safe space for real conversation.
Meeting guides
Each 90-minute group meeting includes a clear conversation guide, so nobody has to prepare a lesson or carry the room.
A simple six-week format
The whole study takes about 3 to 4 hours a week, including individual reflection and group time.
Concrete practices for deeper Christian community.
Name what is happening below the surface.
You will learn a simple practice called a 3-word State of Your Heart, where each person shares three feeling words at the start of a group meeting. It helps people move past updates and into honest connection.
Notice the desires that shape your choices.
The reflections help you identify surface desires and deeper desires, then bring those desires to God with honesty instead of performance.
Listen without rushing to fix.
Your group will practice asking good questions, staying present, and resisting the instinct to give advice too quickly.
Respond with empathy.
You will learn the difference between sympathy and empathy, and practice being with someone in pain without offering a quick answer.
Create a safer kind of group conversation.
The study gives your group shared guidelines for confidentiality, honest sharing, and conversational generosity.
Celebrate what God has done.
The final week helps your group look back, name what changed, and give thanks together.
For a few Christians who want to go deeper together.
Friends from church who want a meaningful six-week study.
Existing small groups looking for their next curriculum.
Couples who want to grow closer to God together and can invite another couple or one or two trusted friends into the conversation.
Women's or men's groups that want something deeper than a typical discussion guide.
Ministry leaders who need a study volunteers can actually lead.
It is easy to start. You only need a guidebook and a few people willing to show up honestly for six weeks.
What six weeks looks like.
Each week, you and your group will:
Watch an overview video that introduces the week's theme.
Complete four short Scripture reflections on your own.
Watch a brief skill-building video before your group meeting.
Meet for 90 minutes using the included conversation guide.
Practice one relational skill together that week.
That is it. The structure is simple enough to start without training, but deep enough to help your group have conversations most people rarely have.
What groups are experiencing
Stories from groups going deeper.
"It wasn't shallow. It was structured. It took you deeper. It eased you into something deeper."
Betsy Thomas
Betsy expected 40 or 50 women to join the study. Seventy showed up. For Betsy's group, the guided questions helped women name deep desires, connect honestly with God, and move beyond a surface-level Bible study experience.
"People learn skills they never had words for."
Chris Guzzardo
One participant told him, "Nobody ever taught me how to just be present with someone who's hurting." That is what Wholehearted Living gives people: simple practices they can actually use.
You do not need to build a program, and you do not need a long-term commitment.
Here are a few ways people start:
Text two or three friends and ask, "Want to try a six-week Bible study together?"
Bring it to your current small group as your next study.
Work through it with your spouse, then invite a few trusted friends into the weekly conversation.
Offer it through your church's men's, women's, or discipleship ministry.
Get the Wholehearted Living guidebook.
The guidebook includes the full six-week study: daily Scripture reflections, weekly videos, meeting guides, and skill-building exercises.
Not ready to commit? Download the first two weeks and try the rhythm before you buy.
When you have finished this program, your group can continue with more guided studies.
Wholehearted Living is Wellspring's recommended starting point. It helps you practice deeper connection with God, yourself, and a few people you trust.
When your group finishes, two more six-week studies are available. You do not need to decide that now. Start with Living and see what six weeks does.
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