From April 1st, we’re reading No Greater Love by Rebecca McLaughlin
Find out more about the book…
Greater love has no one than this: that he lay down his life for his friends. –John 15:13
Our culture idolizes romance and the love of parents for their children. But Jesus said there was no greater love than sacrificial friendship love. What's more, He issued a command to His disciples that they live into this kind of love. Christian friendship isn't just a nice-to-have. It's vital. But it's also dangerous.
Friends can pull us up when we're knocked down, embrace us with their love, and spur us on to follow Jesus better. But friends can also grind us to the ground, exploit, or invite us into sin.
In No Greater Love, Rebecca McLaughlin walks us through the highs and lows of friendship love—a love that's been neglected and malnourished in our modern world. She draws especially on Jesus in the Gospels and on Paul to show how powerful and precious Christian friendship is and how we can walk through the hurt, loss, and disillusionment that comes from broken friendship trust. Beginning with the words of Jesus on the night he was betrayed and abandoned, she points us to His battle-tested love as the unending source of our best love for one another.
Male or female, single or married, joyful or lamenting, lonely or embraced, we all need friendship love. This book will help us give and receive it in a way that calls us back to Jesus's commandment: that we love each other just like He loves us.
Who?
The Book Club is organised by a team from Passion for Evangelism (Alison Bolton, Rebecca Davidson Steel, Catrin Trollope, Nay Dawson and Jo True).
Passion for Evangelism exists to empower, equip and encourage woman to share the good news of Jesus with God-given confidence and creativity.
When?
The Book Club starts April 1st.
How does it work?
We read one to two chapters a week (a timetable will be sent to you when you sign up). Then we aim to discuss the chapters guided by questions written from the team.
We want this Book Club to work for you.
There are options for how you can access the discussion…
Chat at your convenience on our Book Club App. When you join, you’ll receive the link to download the book.
Gather friends from your church and meet together to discuss. We’ll leave you to organise this yourself!
How do I join?
Sign up to the Book Club mailing here.
Buy a book. 10ofThose have offered us a discount here.
Download the Book Club App (instructions will be sent when you sign up).
Is it just online?
In addition to this, we are encouraging women to gather together in their community or church to discuss together.
Could you run a PfE affiliated Book Club at your church?
Have a read of our top tips here.
FAQ
Could you run a PfE affiliated Book Club?
Would you like to get women from your church or community reading together? We’re trialling PfE affiliated Book Clubs.
Top tips on running a PfE affiliated Book Club at your church…
Make it easy to join.
Start talking about it early (two months ago)
Advertise in your church weekly email
Give a couple of notices at church, get advance copies to a friend and invite someone else to share why they loved the book
Buy bulk copies from 10ofThose, this means they will be much cheaper.
Share these blogs
Make it local
As soon as someone shows interest sign them up to the PfE Book Club newsletter.
Start a WhatsApp group
Plan a date to meet up week 3
Persevere.
Even if it looks like no one is joining, keep going.
Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 Book Clubs before someone will join.
Work as a team.
Ask someone else to host the meeting week 3
Invite a friend to share testimony about the book at church
Once women start reading, they will start inviting others.