Ok, so I thought I’d try something different around here. Instead of me telling you what I am reading or have read lately, I thought it might be interesting to read something together. An online book club if you will. Here’s how it would work.
Step 1: Give everyone a chance to acquire the book.
Step 2: Establish some reasonable reading schedule. Maybe a chapter each week.
Step 3: Begin reading it.
Step 4: Weekly post some thoughts, questions, or reflections from the chapter.
Step 5: And here’s the all important part… Everyone reading the book joins in the online conversation.
Simple enough. So the book I had in mind is Deep Church by Jim Belcher. I’ll be honest, I know next to nothing about the book.
I like the front cover. I read the back cover. It is endorsed by people who I am drawn to… and some that I’m not. But I know that the author (or publisher) is speaking my language when he says,
“Deep church looks like – a missional church committed to both tradition and culture, valuing innovation in worship, arts and community but also creeds and confessions.”
My hope isn’t so much that we’ll all be convinced that his perspective is the “right” one. Rather, I’m hoping that through reading this book together we’ll begin to ask some of the right sorts of questions concerning what it means to faithfully live out our calling as the people of God today.
So if it looks interesting to you, and you would like a place to think out loud about what you are reading and thinking, then pick up a copy and we’ll get started in a couple weeks. If you are local and want me to order a copy for you, let me know by November 2nd.
I’ll shoot for having the first post up on November 16th.
If you aren’t feeling the whole “emerging-church-dialogue” thing, then I’m also reading THIS and THAT. I’d be happy to talk about them too.
i’m in; order me a book
I might give it a go…btw, if you ever need books from amazon, I have an account that receives free shipping.
Looks like I’m late. Maybe I can borrow Donna’s…
maybe not too late… i ordered several and there could be an extra copy.