Vol. I
The Class Edition
The section's chapters, with scripture references at the foot of every page — book, chapter and verse only. No verse is reprinted: the footnote is a door, not an assignment. A verse looked up is worth ten verses reprinted.
The story is the teacher.
The workbook is where
the walking happens.
Each country of the road will carry its own eight-week course. The first is Walking the Long Account — eight chapters of the money country, paired one to one with eight weeks of plain, practical work: real figures, in your own hand, in your own kitchen. The other eleven follow their sections to press — see where each one stands.
One country. Eight weeks.
Ninety minutes a week.
Read the week's chapter before the group meets — it is short, and it is the soil the week's work is planted in. Then the group gathers around what the course calls the Fire, and the session runs to a fixed rhythm:
15mThe Fire
12mThe Road
18mThe Workbench
30mDrawing Out
5mThe Glances
5mOne Stone
5mThe Sending
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The Fire
The gathering: a spark question, and one-minute stories of what last week's small act turned into: wins received with joy, stumbles with mercy.
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The Road
The week's chapter, read at home beforehand; the group hears its key passages aloud. The book's words stay the book's words; the reading is never modernised.
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The Workbench
The teaching: what the chapter's country means, and then, in plain modern speech, what to actually do about it this week, numbers included.
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Drawing Out
Small-group discussion built to draw out what your own experience already holds. No quiz questions with book answers. No leader monologues.
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One Stone, and the week between
One concrete practice per week, kept between companion pairs; one small tellable act for the whole Fire; and a short Daily Walk (five days, about fifteen minutes each) between sessions.
What a course is made of
Vol. II
The Steward's Workbook
Where the walking happens: the Daily Walk, the week's One Stone, working pages for real figures, and a lexicon giving every one of the course's terms its plain-words twin — the wall, the engine, the keeping, the Free Purse.
Vol. III
The Goodcounsel Guide
The leader's edition. The teaching is scripted word for word — including the lines that matter most — so a first-time leader never has to improvise the wording of a promise, a caution, or a prayer.
NB
The Walking the Long Account materials are written and in final preparation alongside the Class Edition of Section VII. Leave your address on the letter page and you will be told when the course opens.
Plain dealings
A money course asks for trust before it asks for anything else. These are the rules the course binds itself to, in writing:
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Real figures, dated
The teaching uses actual amounts, actual percentages, actual months — and any figure that can go stale carries its year. No invented statistics, ever.
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Your numbers stay yours
Dollar amounts live in your workbook and, at most, with your companion. They are never asked for at the Fire, in discussion, or in any group moment.
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A free path, always
Wherever a paid tool is named, a free way to the same practice is named beside it. A spreadsheet and a calendar reminder can run the whole course.
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Every practice names its pitfall
Nothing is taught benefits-only. The wall can become a barn. Automation can silt up. The pause can rot into never-deciding. You are told so in advance.
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Teaching, not advice
The course teaches mechanics and stewardship — what compounding is, what a wall is for. It does not tell any student what to buy, sell, or hold, and it says so out loud.
Section VII · The Long Account · Chapter Eight
The garden, and the bank where the whole road is reckoned.
The 14-Day
Steward’s Journey
Before any group forms and before any book arrives, there is a first fortnight you can walk with nothing but a Bible, a pen, and one other person. Seven stages, two days each: the first day walks a stretch of the road, the second day asks what it costs you at home. It is a taste of the whole journey, not a substitute for it.
1The letter at the door
2Standing up from the bench
3The four lines of the deed
4The country of hours
5The body you were lent
6The long account
7The Master returns
Walk the 14-Day Steward’s Journey
Fourteen short readings drawn from the road itself, each with one passage to sit with and one thing to do before the day ends. Find at least one other person to walk it with you — the journey is designed for company.
TK
Written; not yet sending. The fourteen readings are finished — an original work drawn from The Steward’s Progress, written for this press. The delivery pipeline is built but not yet deployed, so sign-ups are held until it is live.
Ask to be sent it
Held until delivery is live
Bring a group to the road
When Walking the Long Account opens, the first word goes to the letter list — leaders first.