Right. If you read the book and are half intelligent you really don't need a study guide.faithfyl wrote:What has become popular in recent years is book studies. You have to purchase some book by a Christian author and the whole Bible study is based on that book. I don't do those any more either. Someone's pockets were getting lined. I was tired of buying books.
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.----Karl Marx
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We routinely have guest speakers at my mega church and all of them want to sell copies of their book in the lobby. Get your copy on your way out. We get tired of their solicitations.
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If is is so freaking important to your spiritual development why don't they just give it to you?Pitts S2C wrote:We routinely have guest speakers at my mega church and all of them want to sell copies of their book in the lobby. Get your copy on your way out. We get tired of their solicitations.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.----Karl Marx
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One of the things I appreciated about very conservative C of Cs (a long time ago) was that they didn't allow solicitations of any kind in their church buildings.B.H. wrote:If is is so freaking important to your spiritual development why don't they just give it to you?Pitts S2C wrote:We routinely have guest speakers at my mega church and all of them want to sell copies of their book in the lobby. Get your copy on your way out. We get tired of their solicitations.
Mega churches are all about money.
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I'd leave then. That tells you what is going to shape their theology and goals more than anything.faithfyl wrote:One of the things I appreciated about very conservative C of Cs (a long time ago) was that they didn't allow solicitations of any kind in their church buildings.B.H. wrote:If is is so freaking important to your spiritual development why don't they just give it to you?Pitts S2C wrote:We routinely have guest speakers at my mega church and all of them want to sell copies of their book in the lobby. Get your copy on your way out. We get tired of their solicitations.
Mega churches are all about money.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.----Karl Marx
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I don't think they should require people to purchase these books to join their Bible study. Not everyone can afford to keep purchasing. Its a new book every 6 to 8 weeks. My husband probably spent a hundred dollars one year.
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Is that all? I regularly spend between one and two hundred dollars on books - every MONTH.
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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I don't spend that much. I use interlibrary loan.agricola wrote:Is that all? I regularly spend between one and two hundred dollars on books - every MONTH.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.----Karl Marx
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The kind of book that is used for these studies is usually (almost always) one of those newly published books. Not an older book, say from 2005 or the 1990s. So it is usually something you have to buy new, its hard to find a second hand edition. Local library might have it but they're all checked out, since its such a new book.B.H. wrote:I don't spend that much. I use interlibrary loan.agricola wrote:Is that all? I regularly spend between one and two hundred dollars on books - every MONTH.
There is a reason for this, and it has to do with supporting Christian authors and publishers and churches with $$$$$. They aren't going to profit if people can buy the books second hand or borrow them from their libraries.
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Regarding book studies and such -- our church has a bookstore, but it is down the hall away from the main lobby (atrium) so there is no overt solicitation. You wouldn't even know it was there if you didn't wander down that hall; you must purposely seek it out. I liked what BH said about why not GIVE you the book if it's that important. Our elders actually DO that. Every few months, if they see a book they feel is really good, they purchase a copy for every single family! (Whether they want it or not! LOL!)