The importance of understanding our past (in the church) has come up in several threads I've read lately.

Would anyone be interested in reading and discussing a chapter called "The Genesis of the Church" by church historian, Roger Haight? 

What I was thinking was that, if there is interest, we could read and discuss it, focusing especially on its relevance to things that are happening now, like the Emerging Church movement for example.

This is a 70 pg. chapter on the "Genesis of the Church" for discussion by anyone interested in reading and reflecting on it together. The author, Roger Haight, is a well known church historian, who belongs to the Jesuit community.

CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN HISTORY  BY ROGER D. HAIGHT

CHAPTER 2:  "GENESIS OF THE CHURCH"  (free preview by Google)

Publisher:Continuum, 2004

ISBN - 10:0826416306
ISBN - 13:9780826416308

There is an account in each of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John