Messy Discipleship · Vol. 01 / Issue Nº 01· Live · Applications Open

— The Hunt · Nº 01

Every man is at war with himself.

Men at war with themselves lose because they never learn the enemy’s name. The desert fathers named eight. Twelve men, ten Wednesdays — we hunt them down together using the same field manual the Church has quietly kept for sixteen centuries.

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  • 12men per Hunt
  • 10Wednesdays
  • 16centuries of tradition

Rolling admissions · Next Hunting Party launches when 12 are vetted

The eight passions — a cracked patristic bust ringed by the symbols of the Eight, on torn parchment with a coral sunN° 01 / 008VS-37THE EIGHT PASSIONS

The Logismoi · Λογισμοί · lit. “Thoughts”

The enemy is the thought.

In the fourth century, a monk named Evagrius of Pontus mapped eight recurring intrusive thoughts — the patterns that have run men quietly into ruin since there have been men. The Church kept the map. We pulled it back out.

We hunt them in teaching order, opening with the Noonday because once you can spot that one you can spot everything. Each enemy has a codename, a Greek shadow, and a virtue we’re training toward as the cure.

— How It Works · Nº 02b

Four steps from curiosity to the cell.

“Only two reasons for trials — to correct you or to perfect you.”

— the working theory of the Hunt
  1. 1

    Apply

    Five questions, no fluff. We read every word the same day it comes in.

  2. 2

    Interview

    Fifteen-minute call with Nate or Adrian. We're checking fit. You're checking us. No pressure either direction.

  3. 3

    Hunt

    Ten Wednesdays at Church of God, Wylie. 7:00 PM. A Frame to open, the Eight one per week, a Long Walk to send you out.

  4. 4

    Carry

    Field training continues after Week 10. You leave with a Battle Bro, a 90-day plan, and a way to keep fighting that doesn't depend on us.

Rolling admissions · Wylie, TX · In-person

— Founders · Nº 02c

“This isn’t a small group. It’s a Hunt. We’re chasing what’s chasing us.”

Nate Tibbs

Founder · Wylie, TX

The only way to understand who you are is to have knowledge of whose you are.

So — the men who named these enemies first.

  • Evagrius

    c. 345–399

    First named the Eight

  • John Cassian

    c. 360–435

    Carried them west

  • John Climacus

    c. 579–649

    Wrote the Ladder

  • Anthony the Great

    c. 251–356

    Father of the desert

— Apply · Nº 03

Twelve men. One Hunt.

Applications open. Hunting Party 01 launches when twelve are vetted — not on a calendar. We’re looking for men who already know they need to fight, and would rather fight together than alone.

“Live a life by design, not by default.”

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Free pilot · Rolling · Application + Interview
St. Anthony
N° 03 / 008HP-01ANTHONY THE GREAT · PLACEHOLDER