A fellowship of differents
Subtitle: showing the world God's design for life together
By: Scot McKnight
Edition: 1st [edition].
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780310277675
Subjects: Church
Description: In this compelling book, Scot McKnight shares his personal experience in the church as well as his study of the Apostle Paul to answer this significant question:  What is the church supposed to be? For most of us the church is a place we go to on Sunday to hear a sermon or to participate in worship or to partake in communion or to fellowship with other Christians.  Church is all contained within one or two hours on Sunday morning. The church the Apostle Paul talks about is designed by God to be a fellowship of difference&#x2014;how people differ socially&#x2014;and differents&#x2014;how people differ culturally. God did not design the church to be a two-hour experience on Sunday but a mixture of people from all across the map and spectrum: men and women, rich and poor, Caucasians or African Americans, and Mexican Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans, and Indian Americans, and a mixture of people with varying personalities and tastes.  The church McKnight grew up in was a fellowship of sames and likes. There was almost no variety in his church. White folks, same beliefs about everything, same tastes in music and worship and sermons and lifestyle.  Because of his experience, he writes incisively and compellingly. The church is God&#x2019;s world-changing social experiment of bringing unlikes and differents to the table to share life with one another as a new kind of family.  When this happens we show to the world what love, justice, peace, reconciliation, and life together is designed by God to be. The church is God&#x2019;s show-and-tell for the world to see how God wants us to live as a family.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Growing up in church; title: A salad bowl; title: Part 1: GRACE. Space for yes; title: Space for grace; title: Part 2: LOVE. Love is a series of prepositions; title: Love works; title: Love shares; title: Part 3: TABLE. Tomatoes versus maters; title: The table of connection; title: We is bigger than me; title: Part 4: HOLINESS. Holiness as devotion to God; title: Sexual bodies in a church; title: Salvation as process; title: Part 5: NEWNESS. A new freedom; title: A new faithfulness; title: A new guidance; title: A new politics; title: Part 6: FLOURISHING. We have landed, but we want the land; title: The exposure challenge; title: Pete the mechanic; title: Teacher with the big fancy hat; title: On a walk with Kris; title: The graces of Paul's life.