{"id":36,"date":"2012-05-25T15:17:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T20:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/archives\/36"},"modified":"2012-05-26T13:20:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T18:20:51","slug":"the-great-ecpc-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/2012\/05\/25\/the-great-ecpc-reading-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great ECPC Reading Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ecpc_books\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/getfile1.posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/temp-2012-05-25\/AkqnGBrtdxqEgaluIgzsjxtmcJCFBzICFJhECiBfeAJxmjqwlusxHmhCAEiD\/ECPC_Books.jpg.scaled500.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/> <\/div>\n<p> On of my favorite aspects of the annual Calvary Chapel East Coast Pastors Conference (ECPC) at Sandy Cove is the &#8220;used book&#8221; table. &nbsp;Pastors are encouraged to bring old books from their personal libraries to donate to the table where they are re-sold for $3 each. &nbsp;This year all the proceeds were donated to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gfa.org\/\" title=\"Gospel for Asia\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel for Asia<\/a>, an ministry for which I have the greatest respect.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the second year in a row, I made multiple trips to the used book table (they kept putting out more books all the time!) and allowed my book addiction to run wild. &nbsp;By the time it was over, I had purchased more than 30 &#8220;new&#8221; books for my library.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers who were with me at the conference know all about my reading obsession. &nbsp;Even so, they peppered me with questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Do you really read all of the books that you buy?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How long will it take you to read all those books?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Will Carol let you back in your house when she sees you&#8217;re bringing in MORE books?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Do you need prayer, or maybe an intervention?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to say that the comments got less &#8220;snarky&#8221; as the week progressed, but they didn&#8217;t. &nbsp;Sometimes I&#8217;m convinced that the greatest evidence of my brothers-in-Christ&#8217;s love for me is the amount of good-natured abuse they heap on my head. &nbsp;Anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to set a challenge for myself. &nbsp;I plan to read <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">every single book<\/span><\/strong> that I purchased (new and used) at this year&#8217;s ECPC <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">before<\/span> next year&#8217;s conference in May 2013. &nbsp;In order to stay accountable, I&#8217;ll be posting to this blog every few days with updates on my progress and some thoughts about the book(s) that I&#8217;m currently reading. &nbsp;I&#8217;m encouraging each of you follow my progress as I work my way through this massive pile of books.<\/p>\n<p>First on the list is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/yhst-77330600255450.stores.yahoo.net\/intensivefaith.html\" title=\"Intensive Faith\" target=\"_blank\">Intensive Faith<\/a>&#8221; by Dan Finfrock at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icmbible.org\/index.html\/\" title=\"Intensive Care Ministries\" target=\"_blank\">Intensive Care Ministries<\/a>. &nbsp;Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On of my favorite aspects of the annual Calvary Chapel East Coast Pastors Conference (ECPC) at Sandy Cove is the &#8220;used book&#8221; table. &nbsp;Pastors are encouraged to bring old books from their personal libraries to donate to the table where &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/2012\/05\/25\/the-great-ecpc-reading-challenge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[10,12,11],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecpc-challenge-2","tag-books","tag-ecpc-challenge","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.livingwaterscc.net\/lwblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}