It’s time for our June focus, book club choice, and challenge for the month! 🎉
We have been reading one book a month that corresponds with our focus for the month. These themes range from marriage to apologetics, all with the goal of growing closer to the Lord and living out His love here on Earth. It’s been a lot of fun and I’m so excited for June!
Here is all the info for June:
June Focus: The Movements of the Abundant Life
Raise your hand if you want a more abundant life! I see those hands! Join us this month:
-  if you’re tired of cheap grace and empty rule keeping…
-  If you’re ready to change the world rather than be changed by it…
- If you’re ready for a fresh take on holiness…
Join us this month as we learn the moves of the abundant life: dancing in grace, standing firm in holiness, and running on mission!
June Challenge: Document your spiritual journey.
June Book Choice: “Dance, Stand, Run: The God Inspired Moves of a Woman on Holy Ground” by Jess Connolly
June Bonus: Printable spiritual timeline and reflection pages
Challenge:
Think back on your story with God. Go back to when you first came to know God. What drew you to Him? What did you feel like? How did you change after meeting Him? Find a way to portray your story. Maybe you could write it out in your journal or record yourself telling the story. Or perhaps you can creatively tell it through art, scrapbooking, photos, etc. The medium is not the most important aspect of the story. The point is to simply going back and remembering what it was like when you first came to Christ, when you discovered His grace for yourself.
If you were super young and can’t remember all that much, think on a time when you came to a crossroads with God. Maybe it was a point of surrender in your walk with Him. Or a spiritual discipline that truly moved you closer to Him. Perhaps it was a long-awaited answer to prayer that grew your faith. Another idea is to chart your spiritual timeline. What were the “big moments” in your spiritual walk? Check back in June for some free printables to help you chart your spiritual timeline!
Book Club:
This month we are reading “Dance, Stand, Run: The God Inspired Moves of a Woman on Holy Ground” by Jess Connolly. Dance, Stand, Run is an invitation to learn the moves of the abundant life: dancing in grace, standing firm in holiness, and running on mission. We will learn that holiness is not a word that should fill us with shame because we are missing the mark but rather a way to live out of what we’ve already been given through Christ. It is the way we move into this abundant life.
I’m excited to read this together! Jess has a way of “going first” and I think we will be drawn in to her stories and spurred on to live out this life in the identity we’ve been given and run on mission. Let’s go!
TO DO:
*Purchase your copy of “Dance, Stand, Run” by Jess Connolly so you can begin reading.
*Reading schedule will be as follows:
- Week 1: Prologue, Chapters 1-2
- Week 2: Chapters 3-5
- Week 3: Chapters 6-8
- Week 4: Chapters 9-10
*Join us on the blog to discuss the week’s reading. Each week we will read a few chapters and the discussion questions for those chapters will be up on the blog on Fridays. The first week’s questions will be up on June 3rd.
*Share your answers. Comment with what you’re learning or share your favorite quotes from the book!
Hope you’ll join in!