Life is for Living

This weekend come experience something.

7pm
Club Sensations
7007 E. Harry (between Rock and Woodlawn on Harry)

See you then.

team.breathe.

Breathe has been called a number of things in its extremely short lifetime. Honestly, nobody’s called it anything negative to my face, but I have heard from people I trust that some not-so-positive descriptors have been thrown around to describe our ubiquitous group.

I would like to address two of them. Admittedly, this is more for me than those who said these things; they likely don’t read my blog.

A Group of Disgruntled Punks*
A lifetime-church-goer used this phrase to describe us when hearing an off-handed, relatively casual, but accurate comment about Breathe. He/she was bothered that a group of angry, bitter, hurt individuals were all congregating together to complain about church. The individual couldn’t understand why the group felt this way; he/she had attended church his/her whole life and loved it. His/her church community had helped him/her get through difficult struggles and some of his/her fondest memories and relationships were forged in church. Surely no one should have a problem with church, he/she thought.

I understand this individual’s train of thought. A lifetime-church-goer myself, I have been blessed with many relationships and support that I wouldn’t have had access to were it not for an organized community of believers. And, honestly, I haven’t really been burned by the church too much myself – I’ve only been mildly condemned and judged, though I have felt largely ignored.

But I’m not sure that our experience is the norm. There are an incredible number of individuals who have been hurt, either through a perceived or actual hurt (I’m not sure there’s really a difference there). They have no interest at all in returning to a group who treated them so poorly – and who can blame them really?

What if a group existed to provide all the love, support and community that the name-caller and I have experienced to those who are without it because of a fear of/hatred for/repulsion by/indifference to church? What if that community did more than sit around and moan about the problems in church (even though that does happen – we are indeed disgruntled), but also started moving in the direction of becoming like Jesus? What if that community transformed into a church in the traditional (like first century “traditional”) sense? What if that group helped move the church forward with its unique, albeit damaged perspective?

That’s the plan for this “disgruntled” band of ours. We’ll see if we get there. Just know that our desire is to be more – much more – than just pissed off punks.

*Ok, the way I heard it, it wasn’t “punks.” But that makes for a much more dramatic subhead. And I believe that it was the spirit of what was said.

Satan Worshippers
We’re not.

Any names you’ve heard or wanted to call us? Leave them in the comments below.

tr

Photo Credit: Thomas Hawk

Yes, this is a repost from The Todd Blog.

Hello friends, as we hope may still call you such.

I feel that some apologies are in order for our unacceptable lack of communication lately.

We had two events scheduled for the past week, both of which got cancelled. Both times we failed to notify anyone.

As I’ve already said, this is unacceptable.

We will work to do better. I promise.

That said, we ARE meeting this Sunday night at 7:00 p.m. at Club Sensations. We hope to see you there. I’ll have a post about that forthcoming.

Can you forgive us?

tr

I cannot live, I can’t breathe unless you do this with me. - AvA

!This Sunday!

We are going to be experience something great.

Please come.

We would love to have you!

Club Sensations
7007 E. Harry
Wichita, KS 67207

6:45pm

Live Art and Music, Poetry, Film, Q&A on Anything and Everything.

Your chance to understand what in the world is going on.

Sunday @ 6:45pm.

-team.breathe.

Pink Floyd gets it.

We think you should, too.

Breathe, breathe in the air
Don’t be afraid to care
Leave, but don’t leave me
Look around
Choose your own ground

Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be…

Sunday June 1st @5pm.

Club Sensations
7007 E. Harry
Wichita, KS 67207

We will Breathe.

We hope you will too.

And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.

Get yourself ready.

Tell everyone.

See you then.

-team.breathe.

We’re at it again.

Sunday evening @ 4:45pm

Club Sensations
7007 E. Harry
Wichita. KS 67207
here is a map from your doorstep.

This week we explore the concept of Neither.

Some questions for you to ponder before you come:

1. Can you pinpoint a time in your life when you picked sides?

2. How did you determine which side to choose?

See everyone tomorrow night!

-team.breathe.

Tonight we officially launched Breathe.

We gathered together at Club Sensations in Wichita, KS and had a lot of fun.

We explored the concept of Companionship through original art and conversation.

Thanks for coming, if you did.

If you didn’t, we would love to have you join us in 2 weeks as we go after it again. Same time and Place. New Topic and Art. More cool people.

Much love peeps,

-team.breathe.

Where Would Jesus Gather?

I’m not sure the answer to that question.

Where would Jesus, if he were hanging out nowadays, had $300 in his pocket and was looking for a place to get some people together to talk about Heaven and right living and stuff, gather?

Where Would Jesus Gather?

Again, I’m not exactly sure about the answer to that question.

However, BREATHE has found a place to gather to talk about Heaven and right living and stuff:

Club Sensations.

It’s a strip club. Fully operational. Monday through Saturday.

And on Sundays BREATHE is inhabiting it to educate, encourage and empower people through creative and spiritual experience to enter into each and everyday with the tools needed to effectively engage everyone.

In other words, we chose a Strip Club as the headquarters for YOU to join BREATHE to positively impact our city and the world.

We will have plenty of food, music, art and alliteration for everyone to enjoy.

For more information, contact us.

East Wichita

Sunday Evenings*
5:00pm
Club Sensations
7007 E Harry St
Wichita, KS 67207
Click here for Directions

*We will begin at this new location Sunday, May 4.

My office started an initiative last week to encourage us to walk more. The goal is to increase the number of steps you take by 500 every week. So far I’m averaging right around 4,500 steps – the average for a sedentary individual.

Great.

But I’m intentionally increasing the number of steps I take everyday. Getting up to check on a project rather than shooting an instant message or picking up the phone. Taking walks around my officle (this one only adds about 5-10 steps). Going to the kitchen for glasses of water more frequently.

And to keep track of my steps I have this fancy little pedometer in my pocket or (stylishly) on my belt.

My little pedometer is a pretty simple device. Every time I step a little thing rattles and it adds one to the counter. It’s not sexy, techy or cool in any way.

As simple as my pedometer is, it’s useful. It keeps track of my steps. It provides motivation. It holds me accountable.

In short, it does what it’s supposed to do.

Cheesy transition:
How incredible would our city be if everyone were less concerned with being sexy and concentrated on doing what they’re supposed to do? What if instead of being ashamed of our “simplicity” we basked in the glory of knowing we were doing exactly what we were made to do?

So how do we make that happen?

Well, first step is discovering exactly what it is we were made to do. More on that soon.

In the meantime let me ask:
What do you think you were made to do?

tr

We are relocating BreatheMovement.org to a new server, so it’s possible that we may be offline for a few hours. Don’t worry – we will be back, and better than ever.

Stay classy.

EDIT: All is well. Thank you for your patience.