
YAY!
Kristen and I have been talking for months about hosting a book club for the book, Beautiful Outlaw by John Eldredge. We are working on finalizing the details but both of us are so excited about it. Today we are going to give you the opportunity to sing up and give you our start date!
Neither Kristen nor I use the word life changing lightly so for us to tell you this book? It is life changing means it did something to us...it shook us to our core and showed us something different about our Jesus that we MUST share.
On Easter Sunday as I stood shivering in the chill of the early morning and listened to the Pastor read some of the words Jesus said from the cross one phrase struck me...
And at the ninth hour, Jesus shouted in a loud voice, "Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Mark 15:34
As I stood there I thought....what a human reaction.
It never would have occurred to me that it be anything other than Jesus doing what He had to do.
Reading through the gospels during Holy Week I saw His humanness in such a different way.
The garden. The betrayal. His words to His friends. His actions. His emotions.
For years I had missed things that made Him Jesus. Fully God. Fully Man. I always think of the fully God part but not so much the fully Man part.
Through reading Beautiful Outlaw I have become aware of Him as God...but also as very much human. Just like me.
I have discovered He understands. My hurts, my confusion, my frustrations, my impatience. He experienced the same thing. He experienced life in this flesh. On this earth.
It has brought me closer to Him in so many ways. It has helped me see our Jesus, the beautiful outlaw, and I am more in love with Him than ever.
Read why Kristen finds this book so powerful on her blog.
Here are the details so far:
Starting April 24 we will meet at Exemplify Online on Tuesdays. This will go through the month of May and into early June. (full schedule coming soon!)
For the first meeting we will be discussing the Introduction and chapters 1 and 2.
We will be having a discussion each week in some form. Both Kristen and I will participate and we hope you will too! Part of what makes this book so fabulous is how it changes your perspective and helps you see Him...and YOU differently.
If you are on twitter you can use the hashtag #inlovewithabeautifuloutlaw so we know you are reading along and what your thoughts are. We will be tweeting too. (@crittyjoy and Kristen is @exemplifyministries)
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If you have any questions please feel free to email us! kandcbookclub {at} gmail {dot} com.
I so hope you will join us as we fall deeper in love with the Beautiful Outlaw that is our Jesus.

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