Praxis Course — Awaken Your Imagination for Redemptive Action

What This Is

As the world around us pushes more hustle, more success, more self-improvement, we find ourselves wanting a different more. More meaning. More purpose. More of our deepest convictions showing up in what we do and how we live.

The Praxis Course is a guided experience designed to awaken your redemptive imagination—the capacity to see your work, your relationships, and your everyday life as part of God’s renewing work in the world—and equip you to act boldly out of love and sacrifice.

As you go through these sessions, our hope is that you’ll feel encouraged, challenged, and ready to take the next step in your calling toward the renewal of all things.

Why We Made This

Praxis has spent 15 years at the intersection of theology, culture, and entrepreneurship — working alongside founders, funders, and culture makers putting their faith into action.

Along the way, we've come to believe, in the words of Co-Founder and CEO Dave Blanchard, that

“risk and imagination and sacrifice, and a sort of eternal optimism … aren’t just permissible for Christians, they’re vital to life with Christ.”

Dave Blanchard · Praxis Co-Founder & CEO

The Praxis Course captures the core ideas and stories lived out in our community and opens them up to anyone ready to discover the life they were made for.

We designed the course for people looking for meaning and purpose wherever they are—boardrooms and break rooms, kitchens and clinics, study halls and city halls.

For leaders of churches, workplace groups, or other organizations, the course is also a ready-made resource for equipping the people in your community to live and work redemptively, no matter their sector or stage in life.

Session by Session

Introduction

What Is Praxis and Redemptive Imagination

Praxis Co-Founder & CEO Dave Blanchard introduces The Praxis Course and its central invitation: to awaken redemptive imagination and discover what it means to put our faith into action through our lives and work.

Session 1

The Renewal of All Things: Your Role in God’s Story

The course begins with the story God has written us into, calling us to build and cultivate. We examine how culture making can be a way to love our neighbors and demonstrate the gospel.

Session 2

The Redemptive Way: Creative Restoration Through Sacrifice

The redemptive way of creative restoration through sacrifice is the life we’re looking for. This session introduces the Redemptive Frame and highlights the difference between exploitative, ethical, and redemptive ways of living and leading.

Session 3

Blessing Over Force: The Method Is the Witness

The way we try to change the world is just as important as the goal. This session explores why the method matters, and why friendship, blessing, and faithful presence are essential to redemptive influence.

Session 4

Opportunities for Redemptive Imagination: Major Issues of Our Time

Every vocation and issue presents opportunities for redemptive imagination. This session asks us to consider how our calling and work intersect with the major challenges of our time. By finding ways to put the redemptive way into action, we aim to live out Jesus’ prayer, “on earth as it is in heaven.”

Session 5

Authority & Vulnerability: Choosing a Life of Adventure

Next, we look at how God made us for both authority (our capacity to take meaningful action) and vulnerability (our exposure to meaningful risk). When we revert to control or withdraw to safety, we rob ourselves of the good life and rob the world of our greatest contribution.

Session 6

Redemptive Quests: Grace Means Go

Grace frees us for a redemptive quest that is consequential, prophetic, and compelled by love. This final session invites you to move toward concrete next steps with trust, courage, and hope.

How It Works

Participants access course content and track their progress through a digital hub. The six video-led sessions contain:

Short films of leaders living out these ideas

Podcast episodes with extended discussion

The course is best experienced alongside friends and fellow community members. Hosts don’t need prior training or expertise—only a willingness to convene a group and follow the provided guides. Participants should come with big questions and be prepared to engage honestly with the material.

The setup is simple. We recommend that groups formed through a church, organization, workplace, or informal community:

Gather your group
Watch one session together at a time
Discuss the key questions and prompts in the companion guide
Reflect together, pray, and share next steps

All of the course content and tools are available at no cost to hosts and participants.

Awaken Your Imagination for Redemptive Action

Sign up to learn more about The Praxis Course — and how to host a group this fall at your church, home, or organization.

Praxis has spent 15 years at the intersection of theology, culture, and entrepreneurship — working alongside founders, funders, and culture makers putting their faith into action.

Awaken Your
Imagination for Redemptive Action

Sign up to learn more about
The Praxis Course — and how to host a group this fall at your church, home, or organization.