(Example #2: JESUSDANCE — FROM SELF-HELP TO JESUS-HELP
A living movement of grace, presence, and holy awkwardness
Self-help in our society spans a vast ecosystem of books, podcasts, apps, coaches, and communities — a sign that people are hungry for agency, healing, and meaning. It stretches across wellness, productivity, relationships, finance, spirituality, and mental health, blending science, tradition, and story. At its best, self-help nurtures resilience, curiosity, and compassion; at its worst, it monetizes insecurity and sells quick fixes. It reveals a culture wrestling with uncertainty while yearning for capability, purpose, and hope.
Jesus-Help: A Different Center of Gravity
Jesus-help shifts the source of change from personal willpower to divine grace — from self-optimization to surrender, relationship, repentance, forgiveness, and discipleship. Instead of autonomy and mastery, it calls people into covenant, community, and service. Growth becomes less about crafting a better self and more about becoming Christlike through prayer, scripture, compassion, and the Spirit. Rather than promising control or success, Jesus-help offers redemption, purpose, and healing through dependence on God and participation in His work.
Jesusdance: Where the Shift Comes Alive
Jesusdance doesn’t reject the energy of self-help — it swallows it, transforms it, and re-orients it toward Jesus. Whatever we touch — art, conversation, conflict, creation, business, protest, worship, grief, or play — we fold into a living dance with Him. It begins awkward, like a junior-high box step: nerdy, earnest, unsure. But the awkwardness is holy. Each clumsy step brings more Jesus into the room, into the act, into the world.
Jesusdance is not a program or a brand — it is a movement-practice people can join year-round: workshops, gatherings, worship, creative experiments, pop-up communities, street-level joy, quiet prayer circles, and the playful turning of secular and traditional spaces into places of grace.
It is wide-open — like a Burning-Man-style orientation that never closes, moving and jiving through cities, cultures, friendships, neighborhoods, and hearts. From now until eternity.
To Jesusdance is to let every space become a sanctuary in motion — every effort an offering — every step a turning toward Christ-shaped becoming.