Greetings friends,
The book club (aka reading group) will be giving its second run this fall. After an active summer, the GCCC/Crossroads book club has not read a single book this fall despite two delicious Mexican dinners. However, we can still resurrect this corpse...if there is enough interest.
Since finishing and buying books seemed to be one obstacle to people coming to the reading group, I propose that we read one of the Christian Classics available on www.ccel.org
here are many great classics available here, like St. Augustine's Confessions, The Practice of the Presence of God, John Bunyan's Pilgram's Progress and pretty much all the famous classic Christian books.
I suggest that we read The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis, a 15th century devotion considered to be second only the the Bible in its spiritual influence in Christianity.
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/kempis/imitation.titlepage.html
With something like this, we could read just one chapter (which are very short) a day.
The vision of book club is to provide a helpful incentive to read regular, spark sharing on insights and discussion, and develop community. Hopefully, our readings will help to enlighten, inspire, and guide us on our paths.
Please e-mail back before Sunday if you are interested in participating in The Return of the Book Club. Please include following information:
1. Whether you can make a meeting this upcoming Monday at 6:00 (perhaps over dinner)
2. If you would like to meet at someone's apartment or at the church or a restaurant
3. Any other ideas about book club
4. If you need a ride
Your humble book reader,
Luke
luketia@ufl.edu
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Great work.
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