HISTORY
In late 1995 or early 1996, Thomas Kennedy of
Holland , Michigan, started an e-mail "list-serve"
[see
the story of it] as a supplement to the 13-week workbook study of
Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God, Henry T. Blackaby and
Claude V. King, 1990, The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention. At its peak, I heard that this list-serve effort had over 1000
subscribers from many countries around the world. Due to illness, Kennedy
discontinued the list-serve.
EG
INFORMATION FILES WEB SITE
Southwest Chinese Baptist Church (SWCBC) in
Stafford, Texas currently continues to maintain course information and links to
Dr. Blackaby's ministry on their church web site at
[check
it out]. For about a year (1998-99?), the SWCBC site linked to a
"Baptist Board" on-line forum which
now no longer exists.
A
NEW EG FORUM
In August 2000, Jackson Leung of SWCBC
contacted the web site, Baptist Board, and suggested institution of an EG forum. This was
started at that site, and I was honored to have been asked to be the EG forum
monitor. But it was discontinued in early 2001...there are many interesting
forums there, however. When you go to the home page, "click" on Enter
BaptistBoard.com. Then scroll down the list of forums and see what interests
you. You can "lurk" and read without registering; but, you can easily
register and post your own comments to any discussion "thread".
[check
it out].
EG
BOOKS and/or MANUAL
The soft-back course manual/workbook is about
8 1/2 by 11 inches and about 222 pages. Try these or other sources for same-day
purchase and pick up or maybe as little as next-day delivery if you let them
know of any urgency:
| as
of at least 8/2001: Dr. Blackaby has "retired" from the Southern
Baptist Convention office and is now working full time with
Henry
Blackaby Ministries. His ministry is a faith-supported ministry with
finances coming from individual contributions and purchases of his products
available. Knowing that Dr. Blackaby strives daily to do the will of God as
directed by God, if you could see fit to purchase your Experiencing God
materials directly from Dr. Blackaby, that would help his ministry and be
greatly appreciated. You can link to this information to order or contact
his ministry at [here].
|
| your
local Christian book store. |
| in
central South Carolina, The Baptist Book Store, Harbison Court, in the
Harbison shopping area: 803-781-6779, store hours 9:30 a. m.-8:00 p. m.
(EST), Monday-Saturday...about $4.00 shipping unless order has a value higher than
a certain amount. |
| Baptist
Sunday School Board (copyright owners), Nashville, Tenn., 1-800-458-2722,
8:00 a. m.-5:00 p. m. (CST), Monday-Friday. |
| an
internet book store such as Amazon.com. |
MY
EG E-MAIL LIST SERVE
In the absence of any other EG list serve on
the web and in connection with the UCT ("University
of Christian Training") schedule of 8/00 at
Northside
Baptist Church, I [Ervin Shaw] initiated a new EG e-mail list serve. The
semester kicked off Sunday evening 13 August 2000. I participated in Kennedy's
list in the winter of 1996 and found it to be an illuminating experience and
one containing possibilities for further witnessing and
discipleship...especially if people registered with correct e-mail address
visible in a signature. We only had 4-5 participants on that new EG list
serve that Fall of 2000.
As of 2 Sept. 2001, my church had not scheduled EG in its UCT line-up. In that the list serve had attracted so few members and the Baptist Board EG Forum (above) was unexpectedly discontinued, I decided that there was no apparent "call" for EG on-line at this point in time. In association with Northside's Wednesday night activities, Rev. Diane O'Connell...an outstanding teacher and one claiming to have been greatly impacted by EG and her subsequent teaching of the course many times...will teach EG. Start date is 4 September 2002 in the CFC room 210 6:30-7:30 pm. I personally attest that Diane teaches from a Jesus-filled heart and from a life rescued by Jesus himself!
Sadly, as of March 2003, Rev. O'Connell & my wife and myself are no longer members at Northside.
My "Home Page" can direct you to its "site index" or intra-site search engine for more on Christian topics on my site. Of special interest is the "testimonies" collection [index].
check
out this web site's site index
(posted 8/8/00; revised 19 Aug. 2001; 2 Sept.
2001; latest update 23 November 2003)