ALSO BY JOANNE J. JUNG

Character Formation in Online Education

Knowing Grace: Cultivating a Lifestyle of Godliness

Godly Conversation: Rediscovering the Puritan Practice of Conference

ZONDERVAN

The Lost Discipline of Conversation

Copyright © 2018 by Joanne J. Jung

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So to Him who is worthy of all worship and praise, thank You. I remain humbled and amazed at the countless ways You have guided, surprised, encouraged, and provided words, ideas, templates, resources, friends, and family. Thank You, and for You, this work of my heart and hands, Your Majesty.

CONTENTS

Foreword by Kyle Strobel

A Word from the Author

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I—REDISCOVERING A “LOST” MEANS OF GRACE

1. Our Viral Hunger for Sacred Community

2. What the Means of Grace Mean

3. The Word Heard, Read, and Remembered

4. “A Kind of Paradise”: When Souls Were Refreshed

5. Peek to Pique: Features of Conference

PART II—CONFERENCE IN VARIOUS LIFE CONTEXTS

6. Small (and Deeper) Group Conferences

7. Family Conferences of the Conversation Kind

8. Marriage Conferences of the Conversation Kind

9. From Pastor to Pew and Back Again

10. Not Your Typical Pastors Conference

11. Distance Conferencing: From Signed Letters to Streaming Sunday Services

PART III—SOUL-TO-SOUL BIBLE STUDIES: CONFERENCING THROUGH GOD’S WORD

Matthew 1:1–16

Matthew 12:29–32; Matthew 13:22–32

Matthew 13:1–23

John 15:1–12

Philippians 4:1–3

Colossians 3:1–17

Hebrews 12:1–3

Appendices

Appendix 1 (from Chapter 7)

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