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Coffee
with Paul
is a call to a responsible and contextual reading of Scripture
that is also imaginative, engaging, and relevant. Reading
the Bible as if talking with it's authors over coffee is a new
concept, a response to a real and growing problem.
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THE PROBLEM
During the past few decades, there has risen a vast
"business of devotion." In many cases, this has been like a
pendulum swinging away from older approaches that tended to be
more formal or academic in nature. The problem is, the
devotional "backlash," although well-intended and more user
friendly, has tended to water-down Christian teaching to
context-less, easy-to-swallow, emotional tid-bits. In the long
run, a too heavy focus on the devotional approaches has sapped the
Bible of its incredible depth, awesome power, and astounding
mystery. So much so that devotional material is being used by many
as a kind of "cliff-notes" of
 the
Bible, saving them the trouble of having to actually read it on
any kind of responsible level.
FRESH, NEW
ALTERNATIVE
Coffee with Paul offers a unique solution to this
growing problem, an approach that is so fresh and powerful it can
literally change lives. Yet, it is so simple and easy to follow
anyone can do it. It is very personal, as if having
coffee one-on-one with the Apostle Paul or other biblical authors.
This approach brings vital concepts together and creates a new
kind of focus when reading Scripture.
To accomplish this, three important ideas are blended in a unique
way to create what we call Instructive Devotion, or
a "conversational" reading of Scripture. By focusing on the
letters of Paul as a starting place, we are able to explore the
notion of getting to know a biblical author as if having coffee
with him.
Instructive Devotion combines the best of academic
and devotional models--instruction and devotion--and uniquely
blends them through focused conversation. The result is a
marvelous new approach.
When substance touches spirit, and faith fills-up learning, lives
change! |
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YOU UP 
If
you do not agree that our approach is everything we say it is,
simply return the materials within 30 days for a full refund.
You will only pay shipping. 
