Gutsy Faith Small Group

Many of you know that my book, Gutsy Faith: Hard Conversations With God is pretty much done, printed, and is awaiting the release date which now has been bumped up to July 17 rather than August 30 as had previously been set. Yeah! It's been a long time coming.

It's exciting and frightening all at the same time. Especially in light of one opportunity I'll have starting July 18. I've been given the chance to lead a small group of 15 young leaders from the Kansas City area through Gutsy Faith over a six-week period. Each of these young leaders come from a range of work experience: accountants, artists, musicians, programmers, marketers, sales persons, editors, event coordinators... It should be interesting. It's one thing to lead a small group, but to lead a small group based on your own book is a little bit of a frightening prospect. It means my readers actually get the chance to dig into my brain, to put me on the spot, and to see if I actually live and believe what I wrote.

What makes this small group equally interesting is I've asked each of the young leaders to put their lives on display throughout the six weeks. We want to involve as many of you in our discussion and growth during this time as we can. To that end each of our young leaders will weekly be blogging their own perspective of our discussions and what they learn. What's frightening is we aren't putting any constraints on them and what they want to say. There's no holds barred. A "gutsy" experiment, if you will (sorry, couldn't resist the pun--groan if you must).

I will be no exception to the rule. I might have written the book, but I'll be reading through it again and putting my thoughts and questions out to you as well via this blog. I invite you to join me and our group for this six-week journey.

I will be posting links to all of the group's blogs within a week, as well as photos (I hope) and quick bios. So make sure you check back.