VT Christian Reading Challenge discussion

This is the thread to discuss Gospel Wakefulness by Jared C. Wilson
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I read the introduction and am so excited to dive into this book. Loved his ending to the into: "But those...who find themselves utterly captivated by the gospel can hardly be entertained by anything else. And that is what this book is about."

Do we read the book anytime this year and share our thoughts from the book or is there going to be a scheduled reading for each chapter?

I just got my book in today. I'll be back with thoughts soon!

Hi--I would like to join in with this as well. My question is Rebecca's: are we doing *scheduled* readings? I guess I will just read and keep checking back....

If y’all want scheduled readings, one of you can create the schedule and add it here. I added the book to our currently-reading bookshelf, so it’s now showing near the top of the Home page. I had to put an end date, and I put April 30, but that can be changed.

I'm currently reading in the first chapter, and I really love the way that he relates his idea of "gospel wakefulness" to Keith Green's testimony, and how as he had a deeper experience with Jesus he equated a salvation experience to something that might have just been a deeper awakening to the gospel. I had originally equated gospel wakefulness to salvation, and I am one of those church kids who has struggled to know exactly when I was saved. I made a confession of faith when I was ten, but it was not until I was 21 that I truly understood my own sinfulness and what Christ did for me. Yet, I would have said before this time that I was a believer or thought I was, and I attempted to live as a believer, and prayed over and over again for salvation as a child and teen, but I have always wondered if I truly became a Christian as a child or as an adult. I will be continuing to evaluate this idea as I read, but I was just checking in because what he's communicating is resonating so strongly with me. On that note, I love this section at the bottom of page 25, where he says, "But for many of us who either grew up in church or lived what many would call 'a good life' prior to our regeneration, feeling the weight of our sin and brokenness, and thereby experiencing the wonder of gospel wakefulness as we see what we've been forgiven of, doesn't come until later, after we've exercised the barest of saving faith." This is good stuff. It's really causing me to think more deeply about my own testimony and feel differently about it than I have in the past.