How it fits together

The architecture of a man's rule

Your aim is to love God with all you are. Your 12:30+1 is how you keep that aim each day. Routines help you keep your 12:30+1, tools help you run your routines, and the men around you hold you to it.

A diagram drawn as a temple. The roof is the aim: love God with all you are (Mark 12:30–31). Under it, your 12:30+1, held up by five pillars: Heart, Soul, Mind, Strength, and +1 Neighbor, each with an example commitment and the tools that keep it. Below, routines help you keep your commitments, each routine with its own streak, and tools help you run your routines or stand on their own. On every side, your daily account goes to your partner, your cohort, and your cohort's Slack channel.

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The aim

Asked for the greatest commandment, Jesus named the whole man: love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Then He turned outward: love your neighbor as yourself (Mark 12:30–31). Everything else serves that.

Your 12:30+1

One small commitment for each part of you (heart, soul, mind, and strength) and one for your neighbor. Each is a yes or no: on any day you kept it or you didn't. You give one account a day, and kept days become your streak. That streak is the one on Today in the app, and the one your partners see.

Routines

A routine is a set of timed steps you run, like a morning routine. Each routine keeps its own streak. A step can keep one of your commitments when you finish it, so you can have a Monday/Wednesday routine and a Tuesday/Thursday routine, and both feed your 12:30+1. Routine streaks are for you; the 12:30+1 streak is the one you give account for.

Tools

Prayer lists, Scripture plans, the Examen, a private journal, a verse a week, workouts, People, Eight Doors, and more. Use them inside a routine or on their own. Link a commitment to a tool and using it keeps that commitment for the day. Already keep something in another app? A commitment can open it in one tap.

The men around you

Your partner. In the app, invite one man (one of you needs Agōn Premium; a cohort includes it). He sees your account every day, and you see his.

Your cohort. A 12-week season with 3 to 6 men and a captain. Every week you give account out loud on a short call and pray for each other by name.

Your cohort's Slack. The Agōn bot asks for your account each evening, it posts to your cohort's channel, and your partners cheer you on and check in. On a hard day, SOS reaches all of them.

You don't need all of it to begin. Start with one tool, and tie it together into your 12:30+1 when you're ready. Get the free app or join a cohort.