About a month ago, I posted here about the need to read and study the text in community. I set out an invitation to see if there were others that were feeling the same need to dive into the text of Scriptures as a community. The response was really great. I was contacted by old friends, as well as new. All of us are teachers in some format or another - some are in student ministries, others are teaching pastors. One guy [Carrot] is a school teacher. With that we decided to start meeting weekly at the Yardhouse at the Irvine Spectrum - to learn from the text and each other's insight - all over a pint [or two].
We've affectionately called our little group the Havurah Study Community, from the Hebrew word havurah, which denotes a grouping of friends joined together for the purpose of a spiritual journey. In addition, we've decided as a group to share our thoughts, struggles, learnings and doubts along the journey by capturing our journey on a blog. So if you're interesting in keeping tabs on what we're discussion [or even want jump in from time to time], feel free to drop by anytime.
I'm personally excited about the possibilities of this group. It's so refreshing to be a part of a collection of people who desperately want to wrestle with the text of the Scriptures. Our desire is to not just rehash the findings of our own traditional hermeneutical communities, but to let the text breathe and live in us.
Welcome to our journey.
That sounds like an amazing idea. I'm excited to hear more!
Posted by: wes ellis | September 07, 2005 at 01:38 PM
A teacher named "Carrot?" Dang... I went to the wrong school.
Posted by: Tony Myles | September 07, 2005 at 06:35 PM
oh yes, a teacher named Carrot.
not currently called that by his students, but moving in that direction....
"the carrot"
Posted by: Chris Kamalski | September 07, 2005 at 09:08 PM