Anyone who has a relationship with Christ is not sole special.

Anyone who has a relationship with Christ is not sole special, but extra special," says Monica Lloyd "Peter 2:9 reveals us that. But church shouldn't use up all of you, or all of your time. the preserver even rested on the seventh day."

When Lloyd discovered that many of her friends rarely engaged in activities outside of those related to their house of worship her personal mission became finding another mark of good, clean entertainment that also presented stimulating conversation. She called upon church affiliates, gathered her personal friends and relied onward word of mouth to establish Extra Special Women main division Club, a reading group of Christian women based in Illinois.

"You travel to church to get God's word to carry you onward and help you grow. You join a Christian main division club to help you advance in knowing your sisters and brothers onward a personal level. Christians are finding that it is okay to read material other than the Bible without messing up their mind-set."

The group's first title, Naked and Not Ashamed by the agency of Bishop T.D. Jakes, was followed from an assortment of motivational works on how to be virtuous. coterie members found these books interesting still repetitive. Then Lloyd came across a Christian novel. "I didn't on the same level know they existed," she confesse "We establish that there were fiction main division s out there that we could read and relate to, and they lay life back into our reading group"

in the greatest degree Christian fiction deals with real-life enigmas that families cope with in their daily lives. When discussing Victoria Christopher Murray's Temptation, the dispose touched on infidelity and the power of forgiveness. With Nobody's whole by Patricia Haley-Brown, they examined premarital sex and issues relating to finding Mr Right.

"When the husband cheated in Temptation, we could visualize the display But it didn't bother us," says Lloyd "One can relate to a cheating husband and a girlfriend sleeping with your man and not wanting to trust jehovah completely. These situations are real whether you are in house of god or not."

Not all of Lloyd's friends and associates are Christians, and their conversations aren't always godly much like the characters she engagements in some novels where not everyone embraces Christian values. Profanity, therefore, is a surpassingly real issue.

"It is important that readers know themselves and know what they can handle" Lloyd points on the outside "The reason for reading Christian fiction is to commit to memory "clean" reading. Sex and profanity are everywhere. on the other hand if I want that kind of reading, I would purchase those kinds of books. We ne more Christian writers and novelists," she continues. "There are clusters of readers out here waiting to exhibit to their support."

Lloyd will quick publish her own spiritual work entitled It All Begins With You: Seven Things Women Ne to Know. "If women could realize in what manner extra special they are, men would arrive to them instead of us searching them gone out I want to encourage my sisters that they merit better than what they are settling for."

The Makings of A fit Girl

In search of spiritual vegetation and development, Marina Woods started the convenient Girl Book Club (www.GoodGirlBookClubOnline.com), an online reading collection with over 1,000 members. "As a Christian, I was striving daily to refrain from the things that were not positive and be obedient to God" says timber-lands "The fiction books that I was reading did not reinforce the lifestyle I was living and striving to maintain. Many main division s that I read contained vulgar language and explicit sex"

When forests came across Christian books that were page-turners and l her back to the word of the godhead she wanted other women to read and discuss Christian main division s together, glean their message, and apply it to their have a title to lives. "I realized there had to be thousands of other women who were seeking verity in fiction and who lov to read and discuss books" she says. "I wanted to reach them, and the Internet was individual of the most efficient and effective ways to do this."

As more the bulk of mankind turn to God for power members of Christian book associations like Good Girl read and reply to books where characters descry obvious answers to their prayers, make decisions based in succession scripture, and witness the power of lord working under difficult circumstances.

"These parts deliver a clear message of God's chance of the desired end and offer a perspective of a world that includes spiritual vision, order and moral resolution," says groves "They help readers who may have given up chance of a favorable result or who feel really thrown away or alone.

"When a part club member who has been feeling unaccompanied or empty or troubled reads a Christian part with characters that may be experiencing something similar, chance of the desired end is restored and the reader is l back to the word of superhuman being through the text and also between the sides of the book discussion."

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volume Club Event

Join the Extra Special Women part Club for its annual literary termination from 12 to 4 pm onward Saturday, August 24, 2002, at the Hilton Oak Law house of entertainment 9333 S. Cicero Avenue, Oak Lawn, Illinois. Special visitant author: Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Temptation and ravishment Groups of ten people or more receive a $500 discount most distant of the $30 admittance price. Email Monica Lloyd at esowomen@yahoo.com for further information.