Relatable: Soul Care is a 6-week Biblical course by Christian Life and Wholeness Institute designed to restore clarity, strength, and holiness in the way we relate to God and to one another.
Most people feel the pressure of relationships every day, yet they rarely receive discipleship that is specific enough to help them navigate closeness, conflict, boundaries, betrayal, forgiveness, and community. This class treats relationships as what Scripture treats them as: one of the primary arenas where faith becomes visible, love becomes costly, and maturity becomes real.
We will begin with the perfect relationship and the perfect model: Jesus Christ. Jesus does not only teach love. Jesus embodies it. We will look at how Christ relates to the Father, how he treats friends and enemies, and how holiness is meant to shape our posture and actions. From there, we will ground relationships in the goal of Christianity itself, not moral performance, but restored communion with God that produces fruit in real life.
Next, you will learn a simple, usable framework for understanding relationships through “relational proxemics.” Scripture speaks clearly about how we relate to strangers, neighbors, and family, and it also reveals “relationship modifiers” that change the nature of closeness and responsibility. In this course we will explore how “friend” and “enemy” function as upgrades and downgrades in the relational world, and why the New Testament’s vision of love is not transactional but agape: self-giving, covenant-shaped love that reflects God’s own heart.
But we will not pretend relationships are simple. Relationships become complicated because we live in a fallen world. Sin, trauma, patterns of fear, and wounds of betrayal distort the way we give and receive love. The course will address brokenness directly, and it will also name the spiritual realities Scripture names: accusation, division, lies, and unseen pressures that seek to deform love and fracture community. You will learn to recognize these dynamics, resist them with truth, and refuse agreements that keep you stuck.
Week by week, the course calls you to untangle the “NOT”: the false narratives we believe about ourselves, God, and others. You will learn how to bring grace and truth together in what we call “holy tension,” where love is neither sentimental nor harsh, and where healing does not require denial.
Finally, we will end where Scripture ends so often: not with isolated self-improvement, but with communities of healing. The Church is not a building. It is a people learning the good fight of faith together. This course is an invitation to live a different story:
Heal what is broken, fight for what is holy, and build communities of healing.
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