Thinking Christian Bible Study Platform
Formation that goes deeper than information.
A spiritual formation ecosystem built on James Spencer’s Thinking Christian framework. Diagnostic. Bible study. Recalibration. For individuals and groups who are serious about mature, uncompromising faith.
The Problem
The church’s problem isn’t misinformation. It’s misformation.
Are you reading, listening, showing up — attending church, sitting in a small group — and still feeling like something is missing?
That feeling is telling you something true. We serve a God who can do abundantly more than we could ask or think, but we have absorbed stories that deny or diminish him. Those stories narrow our understanding of God, his creation, and what it means to live as residents of earth and citizens of heaven. Gradually, other commitments bracket Scripture out — not through rebellion, but through drift — until the Bible no longer has room to do what it does.
The result is stunted growth that feels like stagnation. Not because God isn’t at work, but because we have stopped letting his word challenge and transform us.
The Thinking Christian Bible Study Platform puts you back in serious contact with that word — and presses you to identify exactly where you have been settling for less than what Scripture offers.
The Platform
Reading Scripture expecting to change instead of staying the same.
The Thinking Christian Bible Study Platform is not a content library. It is a structured encounter with the text — one that asks not only what the Bible says but what it requires of you in the circumstances of your life.
Formation Diagnostic
Where are you?
The diagnostic doesn’t simply ask what you believe. It asks you to think about who you are right now. Do your Christian convictions show up in your daily life — in your work, your relationships, your money, your ambitions? A guided conversation that surfaces the commitments and patterns that have been bracketing Scripture out, and identifies where God’s word needs room to speak.
Bible Study
What does the text require?
Bring any passage. The platform walks you through observation, interpretation, and application using Socratic questions applied directly to the text. Not a commentary. Not a devotional. A conversation that won’t let you stay in the abstract — that presses from what the passage says to what it means to what it costs you to live it out.
Recalibration
What has changed?
Two additional sessions per year that allow you to reconsider who you are at that moment compared to where you were previously. What has moved? What hasn’t? Where has Scripture been allowed to speak — and where are you still holding it at arm’s length?
Who It’s For
For Christians who know something is missing and are ready to find it.
You don’t have to be in crisis to use this platform. You have to be honest.
Honest that the distance between what you believe and how you live is larger than you’d like. Honest that the Bible has been occupying less space in how you see the world than it should. Honest that you are capable of more than the version of the Christian life you have settled into.
This platform is for the everyday Christian who is tired of stagnation and willing to be challenged. It is not for people looking for encouragement to stay the same.
The platform will work best for those who reflect on the questions being asked and answer as honestly as possible. The formation assessment will help guide your ongoing study of Scripture and point you to resources available from Thinking Christian and affiliated partners.
Pricing
Choose the plan that fits your formation.
Free
A first read on your formation — no card required.
- —Abbreviated formation diagnostic
- —A first read on where your faith is shaping your life
- —No card required
Individual Assessments
Formation Assessment
The full formation diagnostic — where your faith is, and is not, shaping your daily life.
- —The complete Formation Assessment
- —Guided Bible study sessions
- —Session history and report
Annual adds unlimited Bible study + 2 recalibrations / year.
Biblical & Theological Literacy Assessment
Measure and grow your grasp of Scripture and the theology that holds it together.
- —The complete Biblical & Theological Literacy Assessment
- —Guided Bible study sessions
- —Session history and report
Annual adds unlimited Bible study + 2 recalibrations / year.
Useful to God Assessment
Billed annually
The Moody Center's Useful to God Assessment, plus unlimited Bible study.
- —Useful to God Assessment (one-time, lifetime)
- —Unlimited Bible study sessions
- —Useful-to-God formation guides
Bundles
Formation + Biblical Literacy Bundle
The Formation and Biblical & Theological Literacy assessments together.
- —Both the Formation and Biblical Literacy Assessments
- —Guided Bible study sessions
- —Session history and reports
Annual adds unlimited Bible study + 2 recalibrations / year.
Moody + Biblical Literacy Bundle
Billed annually
The Useful to God and Biblical & Theological Literacy assessments, plus ongoing recalibration.
- —Useful to God Assessment (one-time, lifetime)
- —Biblical & Theological Literacy Assessment (one-time, lifetime)
- —2 recalibration sessions / year
- —Unlimited Bible study sessions
- —All formation guides
For Churches & Groups
Church Cohort Setup
Set up a shared cohort with 7 included member seats — both assessments and unlimited Bible study — plus invite codes for your members.
Additional member seats
For existing cohorts — cohort admins can also add seats from the dashboard.
A Final Word
The Bible was never meant to leave you the same.
Scripture is the living word of a God who is present, active, and making claims on your life right now. The Thinking Christian Bible Study Platform exists to help you meet those claims — not by giving you more to know, but by pressing you into what you already know and have not yet lived.
“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”