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Bezig met laden... Neighborliness : love like jesus. cross dividing lines. transform your community.door David Docusen
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Do you want to love your neighbor as yourself but don't know where to start? This practical, accessible guide to bridging the dividing lines of politics, race, and economics, both individually and as the church, will help you amplify Jesus in your community and build God's kingdom. When asked what the greatest commandment is, Jesus gave a two-part answer: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength" and also "Love your neighbor as yourself." Love God. Love others. Jesus' simple command to love your neighbor can feel overwhelming when your neighbor looks, lives, and votes differently than you do. Racial and economic tensions across the country have resulted in deep dividing lines that seem really intimidating to cross. Docusen breaks down these lines in approachable chapters, including topics like these: how to actively seek out people you can benefit and encourage, what it means to find a diverse and supportive community that fulfills needs, examples of real-life experiences, including highlights and missteps of Docusen's ongoing journey, and how churches can teach on difficult topics with grace and truth. Neighborliness is a practical guide to bridging those dividing lines and learning to recognize and amplify the beauty of God in our communities. Backed by David's speaking and training through the Neighborliness Center, this book will help individuals and churches reach out to their neighbors, love them through Christ, and build God's kingdom. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)241.671Religions Christian Devotional Literature and Practical Theology Christian Ethics Christian ethics not otherwise covered Christian ethics of hospitalityWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.5)
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But have Christians duly and well represented love of neighbor?
In Neighborliness: Love Like Jesus. Cross Divided Lines. Transform Your Community. (galley received by early review program), David Docusen described his own journey in attempting to prove to be a better neighbor in his part of Charlotte, North Carolina.
He noticed the church plant he had established represented his white, middle-class demographic, and was representative of only about half the area. In this book he describes the commitment to become part of a predominantly Black adjacent neighborhood: the vision for the church, the invariable loss of those who were not in support, the opening of many eyes, and the work done to develop relationships within the new community. The author also described his own journey in terms of local business and non-profit collaboration to accomplish substantive good.
The goal of neighborliness proves excellent; the desire to overcome historic and systemic divisions is commendable.
At the end the author speaks of how he now is attempting to work full-time with a startup non-profit to cultivate and develop this kind of neighborliness. It sort of makes the whole work seem like a kind of advertisement.
My biggest critique would be systemic to the Evangelical Publishing/Industrial Complex: this book makes way too much of the author, and not nearly enough about everyone else involved. I don’t actually think that was the intention of the author. But I have a feeling that if the author did more to focus on others and less on his own journey, the book idea would have received less traction, and may not have sold as well. Katelyn Beaty’s book and observations on the Evangelical celebrity pastor complex seems relevant to this discussion.
But yes, go and prove to be the neighbor to the people around you. Especially those who do not look and act like you. (