I recently picked up a copy of “The Divine Conspiracy,” asking myself… what if we did a series of regular devotionals in Brigada. If you’ve seen “Conspiracy” before, you know that the tag line is, “Rediscovering our Hidden Life in God.” Chapters are,
“Entering the eternal kind of life now,”
“Gospels of sin management”
“What Jesus knew: Our God-bathed world”
“Who is really well off? — The Beatitudes”
“The rightness of the Kingdom heart: Beyond the goodness of scribes and pharisees”
“Investing in the Heavens: Escaping the deceptions of reputation and wealth”
“The community of prayerful love”
“On being a disciple, or student, of Jesus”
“A curriculum for Christlikeness”
“The restoration of all things”
To join us, just pick up a copy of “Conspiracy” at any bookstore or on Amazon. Note that we are intentionally *not* providing a link here … especially a link that provides a kickback to Brigada… in an attempt to avoid *any* appearance of conflict of interest. The purpose in proposing this series of regular devotionals is totally to bring us together in Christ, to become more like him. (Therefore it seemed awkward to provide any link that resulted in a financial gift to Brigada. You’re always welcome to do that in other ways, mind you; just not linked to this study. :-) )
So how do you get started? First, order the book. We’ll start the study next Brigada. But act now. Time’s a wastin’! :-)
“The Divine Conspiracy” is by Dallas Willard, published by HarperOne. It was originally copyrighted 1997. See HarperCollines at:
http://www.harpercollins.com/
ISBN:978-0-06-069333-6
(By the way, if you go to Amazon, just copy and paste that ISBN number into the search box and you’ll instantly get the right result.)
Want to comment on this concept (doing a joint devotional together)? … or on Willard’s book? Just click “Comment” below.
Thanks, Doug – it’s been a long time since I read that book. A few gems from it come to mind regularly, but I could use a revisit. And would enjoy going together, with you and other Brigada readers. Good idea.
Here is a link for some on ebay at a GREAT price of just over $5 including shipping.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120388461043
These are brand new and remainders. I just bought mine here.
This is a great idea Doug! Divine Conspiracy is near the top of my “Books that Have Influenced Me the Most” list. I regularly study it on my own, but the opportunity to interact with others about it would be great!
As I said previously, Divine Conspiracy is one of my favorites. Could you say a little more about what you mean by “what if we did a series of regular devotionals”
I need a little more description.
btw-ryan and martha are “ragamuffins”
To answer your question in particular (what did I mean), I was anticipating that I’d propose that the Brigada participating audience would read a certain section, then interact with it as a group via this kind of exchange. Hopefully, we’ll all sharpen one another somehow.
Great! Looking forward to it.