Reading with friends
Twelve weeks, one lesson a week, with one or two friends or a few people around a kitchen table. No leader, no program, and no one's permission needed.
How to meet
- Read or listen on your own during the week. Each lesson takes about twenty minutes. The audio is free.
- Meet for an hour. Coffee is enough. Someone's kitchen, a back porch, a video call.
- Read the center verse aloud together. It's printed at the top of every lesson.
- Work through "Talk it over." Let people disagree. Nobody has to land in the same place.
- Each person names one thing from "Practice this week" that they'll try.
- Next time, start by asking how it went.
One ruleThe goal isn't to win an argument. It's to keep coming back to what he said.
When people read different editions
Friends don't have to believe the same things to read together. Every lesson comes in two editions, Centered for believers and Honest Heretics for skeptics, with the same history, the same verses and the same verdicts. Each person can read the one that fits, and the conversation still lines up.
One question to carry
Ask it of everything: did Jesus say this himself, or did someone add it later? If he never said it, and he did say this, which should come first?
Matthew 18:20
20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”