Clarification

A flurry of activity shows me that not everyone who wants to be a part of the “Verse of the Day – Plus” learning community from its outset realised that they needed to sign up today at the special launch price of just twelve pounds. You will still be able to sign up after midnight today (Friday), but only at the regular price of twenty five pounds. The launch offer is less than half the regular price and includes an extra bonus session of the Daily Bible Reading Workshop, looking at concordances. That’s just one pound ($1.40) per month, a tad over 3p (7c) per day for all the added value that we will bring to help you read and understand your Bible and to be able to share those thoughts with an on-line learning community.

A few people wrote to complain that they didn’t want to pay for their Daily Bread. We understand that and heaven forfend that we would charge anyone for access to the text of the Bible, or be trying to get people to pay for the Bible being delivered to them. There are any number of free and very usable Bible reading programs out there, offering verses and sometimes a little commentary. Please don’t let us take you away from something with which you are comfortable.

We are making a very modest subscription charge for the extra scholarship that we are bringing to your study and reading, for access to material drawn from our scholarly library, for our years of experience in writing and commenting on the biblical text, for a guided and, we hope, inspired path through the Bible in bite-sized pieces with commentary, scholarship, further study suggestions and questions and a challenge or application, for an audio transcript so that you can listen to the lesson each day as well as read it, and for access to and membership of a learning community who are all working with the same material and can discuss questions and concerns, to share and discover how the Bible and its Author are speaking to you.

We need enough people in our initial community group so that there will always be people reading and commenting, sharing and talking; so that the community dynamics work and that people won’t be rolling around in an empty room. This is why we are offering such a significant price reduction for our foundation members, to assemble a group of enough critical mass, although we hope the group will soon grow as we share what the group is doing, how the L-rd is speaking and the learning we have done together, with friends, colleagues, acquaintances at church or congregation. We can all do this and so help the group to grow and be a blessing to an ever widening circle of believers.

So if you had reservations about the subscription fee, didn’t understand how the group was going to work, or perhaps hadn’t realised why signing up now was important, can I gently nudge you to think about popping along to the sign-up page and getting that done before midnight so that we can start with a good and robust group on Monday morning. We need you to make it work! Here’s the link again:

Verse of the Day – Plus Sign-up

Wishing you Shabbat shalom and a pleasant evening and weekend, and hoping to see you for our first reading on Monday morning,

Jonathan and Belinda
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Rabbi Dr Jonathan Allen PhD CEng
Director, Spreading The Word – Online
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