Since last fall, Virginia and I have been choosing a book and reading it aloud, a chapter or two at a time in the mornings. We started off reading as we walked, but that didn't last too long. I found I couldn't walk fast enough while reading... and stay upright, so we separated the activities. Walking goes better without reading, and the reading is more reflective and interactive when I'm not worried about tripping.
The first book we read was Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller... highly recommend it. It helps you understand that for some in today's world, the best road to Jesus may not look like what most of us "churched" folks have grown up with. Next we read Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala. It's a wonderful story about the power of prayer in the life of a church in New York City. Then we decided to read Brian McClaren's New Kind of Christian trilogy. We just finished the second book, The Story We Find Ourselves In. It raises lots of great questions about how the church might need to look to be effective in the culture that is emerging in the 21st century. Certainly makes one think... and wonder... and pray... and see the need to trust God more and one's own understandings less. We just started the third book.
We're really enjoying doing this... it gives us a regular time to reflect and discuss ideas, spiritual things in general... and to pray together... and those times are special every single time.
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Is that not a great series of book or what????
I just finished the McLaren books and I loved them. you'll have to let me know what it's making you think...they certainly got my head into deep waters.
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