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...written by many people will likely be better than a booklet written by a single person. Well, it's a theory at least :).
The Situation
Things are getting to the point where most people have recovered enough from initial "hurricane shock" to start reevaluating themselves and their standing in life. It's a critical time, and a great time to start teaching people the truth contained in the Scriptures about salvation and God's plan for mankind. There have been a lot of visitors to services recently, and I imagine that is likely the case in nearly every congregation in the area. People you meet in public seem to be much more willing to have religious conversations than they were a few months ago. It's amazing the change in attitudes that takes place when disasters strike. When we are humbled, for a brief window of time, we are forced to face our mortality and dependence on someone greater than ourselves.
That window of time is probably going to be coming to a close sometime in the too near future. People who are looking for spiritual answers will find them (not necessarily the right answers) and others may simply go back to being uninterested. It would be great to have a booklet to hand out to people that answered questions and presented information helpful to their spiritual questions. In particular, a booklet aimed at answering questions that people might be asking right after a major storm, like, you know, a hurricane.
The Problem
I would love to put together a booklet like the one mentioned above. It would be a great and helpful tool, but I don't have the time to do it all by myself (there's probably a reason for that). It would take too much time to get everything written and put in order if I were the only one working on the booklet. I imagine the first printed copy would appear in, roughly, 2 to 850 years from now.
That is much too late to be of any real assistance to anyone.
The Solution
One time, at the University, I took a class where a group of students collaborated online to compose a document - specifically a research paper. It worked great. We only had to write one paper instead of 5, we had different perspectives to make the project more complete, and many heads looking for answers are more efficient than one.
As individual Christians, we can work together to make a booklet like the one mentioned earlier. I doubt that any single person has enough free time to make one on their own, but if we all take a little time to work on the booklet together, we can get it done quicker, better and completer (yup, real word).
The Proposition
I am going to create an online document with a series of questions or other topics that will be discussed in the booklet. If you're interested in helping, let me know and I can give you access to the booklet based off an e-mail address that you supply. If you see a question you'd like to answer, let me know and you will be assigned to work on that question; same thing for any topic. If you think a question or topic needs to be added, suggest it.
After we get a rough outline for the booklet, we'll create another document and start writing. The questions and topics will be put together, edited ("unity of voice"), laid out in booklet form, and then I will incur the cost of printing them.
The booklet will be presented as coming from individual Christians, not a congregation or denomination, and given to those individuals who are seeking to become nothing but Christians.
The Task At Hand
If you are interested, let me know. If you know of someone else who might be interested, tell them about this. The sooner we start working and writing, the sooner we can get printing and the sooner people will have the information that can help them understand the Scriptures and receive the wonderful grace of our Lord and Savior.
Preemptively, thank you to all who are willing to help.
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