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In this compelling book about diversity and community, McKnight shares his personal experiences and his study of the Apostle Paul to answer this significant question: What is the church supposed to be?
Local churches matter far more than we often know because they determine what Christian life looks like for you. The church McKnight grew up in was a fellowship of sames and likes. Mostly white, same beliefs about everything, same tastes in music and worship and sermons and lifestyle.
But the church God designed, says McKnight, is meant to be a fellowship of di¿¿fference and di¿¿fferents. A mixture of people from all across the map and spectrum: men and women, rich and poor, black and white, and everything in between.
A Fellowship of Differents explores the church as 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, showing the world what love, justice, peace, reconciliation, and life together is designed by God to be.
About the author
Scot McKnight has been teaching the New Testament for more than four decades and is now a visiting professor of New Testament at Houston Theological Seminary. He is the author or editor of more than ninety books, including The King Jesus Gospel, Kingdom Conspiracy, and Revelation for the Rest of Us.
Summary
Now in softcover, here author and professor Scot McKnight presents a case that everything we learn about the Christian life we learn from our church. But, what’s the church supposed to be? The church is God’s social experiment of bringing different people to share life as a new kind of family to show love, justice, and life together.
