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Build a "DIY" Booklet Rack!

 

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(← Click to see full-screen.) We've designed and built a "DIY" booklet rack for our free 5.5" x 8.5" booklets. You can too, by using these downloadable PDF instructions (set print size to "print to paper") on how to build them yourself from a sheet of 1/4" x 2' x 4' plywood. This booklet rack will cost just about $20 for materials. The only tools and supplies you need are a hammer and 3/4" wire brads, a sabre saw, a drill, wood glue, some sandpaper, paint and a brush. A donation jar is optional. It helps to have a workbench, If you have any further questions about it, write us.

To find these booklets, go to this page: https://agape-biblia.org/literatura/, press Ctrl-F and search for "5.5" (without the quotes) to see the title, author's name, number of pages, and description; or click → here ← for a list of just the titles with the direct link to each booklet.

 

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Here are just a couple of these booklets: Building the New City - St. Basil's Social Vision, by Paul Schroeder. This 16-page booklet is a concise overview of St. Basil's "New City." He donated all his wealth to the poor for constructing the "New City" just outside Caesarea. He devised a new approach for monastics: both monks and nuns should serve God by serving mankind. Basil's Basiliad or "New City" had a hospital, lodging for pilgrims, and housing for the poor and elderly along with the monasteries.

And read Building the ARC by this webmaster. This 11-page essay and 9 pages of sketches illustrate a way to put St. Basil's "New City" (above) into practice on a realistic small scale for a single parish. You might ask - "Why would I want to build an ARC, anyway? Do I look like Noah?" How do you start building it? First, you gather people together who are committed to living together as Christians in community. Then take our 1 year of courses to train people how to do practical, hands-on ministry.

Why bother? Why read all this stuff? Why isn't it enough just to believe in Jesus, repent, be baptized, take holy communion once a month, and put a few dollars in the offering? Now that you've gotten the afterlife taken care of, why not get with it and enjoy this life? – that's the "minimalist" approach for many Christians. So in the past day or two, I've added this short paragraph to my online web page and booklet "A First-Century View of Yeshua, the Messiah" right after his baptism by John –

"If Yeshua the Messiah is now proclaimed to be God's sacrificial Lamb, why didn't he immediately go to Jerusalem, be crucified, and rise again? His three years of ministry were necessary to train his disciples how to do diakonia-ministry!"

(Bookmark this "First Century" web page and/or get the printed booklet here: https://agape-biblia.org/literatura/#1st-century.)

What we've done in the past century by secularizing Christianity is that we've set up a false dualism: an "either-or" choice. Either we believe and preach the message of getting people saved and on their way to heaven, or we get them involved in social action – feeding the poor, healing the sick, and counseling the broken-hearted. But it's not a false "either-or" choice, it's "both-and" – do both ...and start by reading these booklets!

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