Making Christian Thinkers
Reading Program

A Thoughtful Reading Program for university students and faculty in Indiana and in GFM. InterVarsity Christian Fellowship


Life is full of classes, homework, and IVCF activities not to mention social life. It's challenging to maintain personal reading habits that feed and nourish our spirits.

"Making Christian Thinkers" can:


This is HOW it Works

First, we strongly suggest you find a study partner and go through the plan together. When you finish reading ANY three entries marked with an asterisk and one entry marked with two asterisks, you will receive the first scholarship incentive.

The scholarship incentives can be used toward IVCF Training like Summit and Fall, Grad, or Greek Conference, SLT, Global Projects, Spring Break Mission Trips, Urbana, Cedar Campus Weeks, Urban Projects, Evangelism Projects, etc. You may read books from any of the sections just as long as you have three single asterisk and one double asterisk entries read.

Recording

After doing the reading, you need to sit down with your staff worker and share what was most helpful from the book or send a half page book review to Joe B. Whitchurch (IVCF GFM Staff for Indiana) at jbw@insightbb.com for each of the books you completed, including one for the Bible portion. After completing a section of 3* and 1** let Joe know which training or student you'd like the scholarship applied toward. Scholarships can be transferred to another student at your request.

It's that simple and flexible! You don't even have to buy the books - just borrow them from your staff worker or friends.

There are 8 Incentive Levels.


Bible Readings:

**Read through Matthew, Mark, and John in the New Testament.
**Read Genesis through Judges in the Old Testament.
**Read Ruth through Proverbs in the Old Testament.
**Read Luke, Acts, Romans, and Revelation in the New Testament.
**Read Ecclesiastes through Ezkiel in the Old Testament.
**Read 1 Corinthians through Jude in the New Testament.
**Read Daniel through Malachi in the Old Testament.
**Re-Read Luke, Acts, Romans, and Revelation in the New Testament.

Books to choose from:

*Why Should Anyone Believe Anything as All?
*Darwin on Trial
*Is the New Testament Reliable
*Against the Night
*Read one of the following: Handbook of Christian Apologetics, Who Moved the Stone, or The Universe Next Door.
*Basic Christianity or Mere Christianity
*Out of the Salt Shaker or Speaking of Jesus
*The Fight
*All the following booklets: "My Heart Christ's Home", "The Trinity", "The Authority of the Bible", and "Becoming a Christian".
*The Cross of Christ
*Making Sense of Suffering, by P. Kreeft
*The Beauty of God's Holiness
*Knowing God
*Excellence in Leadership
*The Pursuit of God
*Should I Get Married
*Eros Defiled
*Too Busy Not to Pray
*God's Fool, or any biography of St. Francis of Assisi
*Moving Out: The Story of Student Initiative in World Missions (Copies available at the Joe's office)
*The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom
*Either Tales of the Kingdom or Tales of Resistance
*Read one of these C.S. Lewis titles: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, or The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe from the Chronicles of Narnia.
*Read one of the following: Creation and the Cosmos (Ross), Yearning (Barnes), Let Justice Roll Down (Perkins), Why Wait (McDowell), The Case for Christ (Strobel).
*Read one of the following: Inerrancy, Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, No Easy Walk, A Christian Manifesto, or Unmasking the New Age.
*Web article on abortion at http://jbwjazz.home.insightbb.com/abortrev.htm
*Web article on women in ministry at http://www.covchurch.org/cov/resources/pwomenmin.html
*OK, OK, I have a Bible, but is there a place where I can get nearly all of these great books online? http://jwhitchurch.home.insightbb.com/books.htm


"When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments"
2 Timothy 4:13

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if there is any left I buy food and clothes."
Erasmus



Questions?

If you have questions about books, substitutions, reporting, authors, or have trouble locating any of these books for any reason contact your staff worker or jbw@insightbb.com or phone Joe Whitchurch at (765) 532-4882.

Scholarship amounts build and are based on how many times you have completed three books of your choice and a Bible reading section starting with $30 and going up to $100 in $10 increments. To see the book covers or purchase some of them online click here.

Enjoy the Reading Program!