After participating in the Man Challenge Bible study/men's group this past spring at Southeast Christian Church Oldham Campus, I jumped at the opportunity to join the summer Bible study that would go through Dallas Willard's book The Divine Conspiracy. Kurt Sauder and Chris Brown sort of co-led the study, based on which of them was available that particular week. Both did an outstanding job with the study, and you could sense the passion each of them had for the material as well as its subject matter.Willard used this book to expound upon Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, and articulate how God wants us to live while here on earth. Willard states that we spend too much time focusing on just saving someone to assure them of heaven, while not focusing on what needs to happen after that with a person during his or her remaining days, whether its just days or several decades.
Willard's writing is dense and very interllectual, but not totally unapproachable. I would compare it favorably to some of the reading I did as a student with The Londen Institute for Evangelism--difficult but vital. The Divine Conspiracy was so worthy a read, and I hope to read something else of his some day, especially because I understand that this one was really just one section of a trilogy.
I have written previously about how Southeast Oldham has impacted me, my Christian walk and my ministry at Drennon. This study, which I took my son JR with me as a sort of "auditor", was the best thing I've experienced there yet.
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