A Fellowship of Differents: Showing the World God's Design for Life Together
Written by Scot McKnight
Narrated by Van Tracy
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About this audiobook
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—how people differ socially—and differents—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 and 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’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’s show-and-tell for the world to see how God wants us to live as a family.
Scot McKnight
Scot McKnight (PhD, Nottingham) has been a Professor of New Testament for more than four decades. He is the author of more than ninety books, including the award-winning The Jesus Creed as well as The King Jesus Gospel, A Fellowship of Differents, One.Life, The Blue Parakeet, Revelation for the Rest of Us, and Kingdom Conspiracy.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Greatly appreciated this overview of Christianity. It provided input on a number of facets of the Christian life and on life together in a community.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Minute night frames a beautiful image of a church as a salad bowl of difference. But, it’s not just about being different, but embracing the beauty of the diversity we share in Christ and learning how to flourish as followers and communities of Jesus in our world today. What were the challenge!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An easy quality read provoking new thoughts. Scott McKnight emphasizes the importance of diversity, love and each person contributing their unique gifts.