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Week 40: Christian Mens Breakfast: Imitate Christ

Week 40 Discussion Notes:1

  1. Is life fair? Do you generally get what you deserve? (Day 274)
  2. It is human nature to (i) deny we have made a mistake; and (ii) resist submission to the correction of another. Do you find yourself resisting God in this manner? (Day 275 & 276)
  3. Kempis writes in chapter 53, “if you completely conquer yourself, you will more easily subdue all other things. The perfect victory is to triumph over self.” Should we have complete control over ourselves, before we try to influence the world about us? (Day 278)
  4. Kempis wrote, “Having too many worldly possessions causes strife, and many vices.” Should we try to not have so many possessions? (Day 279)

The Christian Mens Breakfast group meets this Saturday and (almost) every other Saturday at a local restaurant in Davie, FL. Call Tom Truex, or use the CONTACT tab at K-Line.ORG to get more information.

Our discussion will focus on the Chapters listed below, from The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis.2

All items listed below are online at ImitateChrist.ORG:

  1. Book 3 , Chapter 52 : A Man Ought Not to Consider Himself Worthy of Consolation, But Rather Deserving of Chastisement (October 2, 2012)
  2. Book 3 , Chapter 53 : God’s Grace Is Not Given to the Earthly Minded (October 5, 2012)

Also Posted this Week at ImitateChrist.ORG:

  1. Challoner’s Reflections3 on The Imitation of Christ for each of the above chapters.

Footnotes:

  1. References to days are from the Imitate Christ Study Guide ↩
  2. The dates listed are the dates the chapters were posted online, which also corresponds to the suggested reading plan in the study guide. ↩
  3. Right Rev. R. Challoner, D.D., V.A., Imitation of Christ, Dublin: McGlashan and Gill, 1873 ↩

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Imitate Christ in 2012!

This week concludes the One Year Bible Challenge for the Saturday Morning Men’s Breakfast group. Between 50 and 100 people committed to Read the Whole Bible this year, through some connection with the Bible Study group. If you read all or part of the Bible this year, and want to share your story, please write to me.

In 2012, the Men’s Breakfast group is reading The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis. The reading schedule is posted online. It involves about 5 minutes (or less) a day, to read just the text—a little longer if you follow the other suggested daily readings. Men, feel free to attend the breakfast meetings, whether or not you do the suggested reading. The recommended reading won’t hurt you, but we’ll cover the material at breakfast. Our goal this year is to seriously consider the imitation of Christ.

If you attend the Men’s breakfast group, don’t worry about the book or materials. As always, you buy your own breakfast, we’ll supply the materials.

Anyone else can obtain the book in EPUB or PDF format from Google.com/books. Amazon sells an inexpensive version of The Imitation of Christ for about $2.50. There are hundreds of translations of The Imitation of Christ. The main text I am using is the one by Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton, first published in 1940.

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