Spirituality of Jesus

I’m always on the lookout for new material that I can use with our house group. With it being Lent I wanted to focus on the person of Jesus and how we should live. In looking for resources I came across Spirituality of Jesus by Jon Horne (Agapé) (scroll down the page).

A series of modules looking at John’s Gospel and how one might be “at home” with God. The book is aimed primarily as an evangelical tool to connect with people in the workplace but we’re adapting the material to work with our more devotional group. The things about it that struck me positively included:

• It is presented in an engaging fashion - mixing text, images, activities.
• It treats the people using it as intelligent persons.
• It shows its “exegetical underwear” (Thanks to Steve for the metaphor)
• It had a sample chapter I could download to have a look at. (http://www.agape.org.uk/workplace/downloads/soj.pdf)
• David Wenham (NT Scholar) consulted on it and I loved his little book The Book of Signs : John’s Gospel : Good News for Today
• Inside the cover it says “Multiple copies of this document may be made for group use.”
• It respects the literary devices and imagery in the text.

We took a stab at it for the first time last night and it seemed to go well. I don’t know what the other Agapé stuff is like but this book seems like a good resource for getting into John’s gospel.