{"id":4742,"date":"2019-05-13T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2019-05-13T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T21:45:16","slug":"recommended-resource-fellowship-of-differents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/2019\/05\/13\/recommended-resource-fellowship-of-differents\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Resource: Fellowship of Differents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fellowship of Differents<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scot McKnight<\/p>\n<p>Friends, this is a book to be read and re-read, a book that should be wrestled with and courageously applied to our local church life. Scot McKnight\u2019s <em>Fellowship of Differents<\/em> calls us to think of the church as God\u2019s world-changing social experiment, a place of <em>difference<\/em> and <em>differents. <\/em>As we, more and more, look for sameness, similarities, and security (at least we think it\u2019s security) in our churches, McKnight sees the church as offering the world an opportunity to see God\u2019s vision for human community, the place of God\u2019s \u201cYes.\u201d Love and grace are God\u2019s \u201cYes\u201d to you, his first word to you. If God\u2019s \u201cYes\u201d is for you, then by extension, God\u2019s \u201cYes\u201d is also for others, and those others are different than you. The call of Christianity is not sameness; it\u2019s a transformation to be like Jesus not like each other. How can we welcome <em>differences<\/em> in our churches? How can we celebrate the <em>differents<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Using six themes of the Christian life, McKnight works to answer two questions: \u201cWhat is the church supposed to be?\u201d and \u201cIf the church is what it is supposed to be, what does the Christian life look like?\u201d Sections on Grace, Love, and Newness are highlights of the book. His chapter on \u201cLove as a series of prepositions\u201d has foundationally changed my approach to love in relationships.<\/p>\n<p>McKnight is a professor by vocation, so the text is thorough and well-grounded in Scripture. He is a pastor in heart, so he communicates with gentle wooing compassion that calls us back to a better way of living together. Fair warning, there is nothing easy or simple about the vision of community McKnight describes. This vision will take hard, intentional, focused work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[1084,1034,1051,953,952,968,1045],"class_list":{"0":"post-4742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-discipleship-ministries","8":"category-general","9":"tag-a-fellowship-of-differents","10":"tag-iphc-discipleship","11":"tag-iphc-discipleship-ministries","12":"tag-johnny-bland","13":"tag-jonathan-bland","14":"tag-recommended-resource","15":"tag-strong-in-fellowship","16":"entry"},"title_es":"Recurso Recomendado: Fraternidad de Diferentes","content_es":"<em>Fellowship of Differents<\/em> Scot McKnight Friends, este es un libro para leer y releer, un libro que se debe luchar y aplicar con valent\u00eda a la vida de nuestra iglesia local. La <em>Fraternidad de Diferentes<\/em> Scot McKnight nos llama a pensar en la iglesia como el experimento social de Dios que cambia el mundo, un lugar de <em>diferencia<\/em> y <em>diferencia.<\/em> Mientras, cada vez m\u00e1s, buscamos igualdad, similitudes y seguridad (al menos creemos que es seguridad) en nuestras iglesias, McKnight considera que la iglesia ofrece al mundo la oportunidad de ver la visi\u00f3n de Dios para la comunidad humana, el lugar de Dios &quot;. S\u00ed. &quot;Amor y gracia son el&quot; S\u00ed &quot;de Dios para ti, su primera palabra para ti. Si el &quot;S\u00ed&quot; de Dios es para usted, entonces, por extensi\u00f3n, el &quot;S\u00ed&quot; de Dios tambi\u00e9n lo es para los dem\u00e1s, y esos otros son diferentes a usted. El llamado del cristianismo no es la igualdad; Es una transformaci\u00f3n ser como Jes\u00fas, no como el otro. \u00bfC\u00f3mo podemos acoger las <em>diferencias<\/em> en nuestras iglesias? \u00bfC\u00f3mo podemos celebrar los <em>diferentes<\/em> ? Con seis temas de la vida cristiana, McKnight trabaja para responder dos preguntas: \u201c\u00bfQu\u00e9 se supone que es la iglesia?\u201d Y \u201cSi la iglesia es lo que se supone que es, \u00bfc\u00f3mo es la vida cristiana?\u201d Secciones sobre la Gracia , Amor y Novedad son los aspectos m\u00e1s destacados del libro. Su cap\u00edtulo sobre &quot;El amor como una serie de preposiciones&quot; ha cambiado de manera fundamental mi enfoque del amor en las relaciones. McKnight es un profesor por vocaci\u00f3n, por lo que el texto es exhaustivo y est\u00e1 bien fundamentado en las Escrituras. \u00c9l es un pastor de coraz\u00f3n, por lo que se comunica con una gentil compasi\u00f3n que nos invita a volver a una mejor manera de vivir juntos. Advertencia justa, no hay nada f\u00e1cil o simple acerca de la visi\u00f3n de la comunidad que describe McKnight. Esta visi\u00f3n requerir\u00e1 un trabajo duro, intencional y enfocado.","author_name":"Jonathan Bland","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/05\/DM-Resource-A-Fellowship-of-Differents.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T9u2-1eu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}