Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-254).
Contents:
Foreword / Skye Jethani -- Introduction. A simple shape, an Italian word, a way of life -- Part 1. Jesus in the both/and -- 1. Overlapping worlds : when God moved into the neighborhood -- 2. Scandalous misfit : hanging with saints and sinners -- 3. Double-major Jesus : embracing justice and embracing grace -- Part 2. When Jesus blows up your either/or life -- 4. Orthoparadoxy : right believing and right living -- 5. Resident aliens : too Christian, too pagan -- 6. Being peculiar :inhabiting the space between normal and weird -- 7. Faithful witness : living the right preposition -- 8. The prayer of sacred overlap : how Jesus teaches us to pray -- Part 3. Joining God in the sacred overlap -- 9. Dual engagement : evangelism and discipleship at the same time -- 10. Practicing resurrection together : peculiar practices of the overlapped life -- 11. Sacred celebration : embracing joy amidst a world riddled with pain -- 12. Mandorla mission : living out fresh expressions of church -- 13. Faithful posture : convicted civility -- A final word : the ampersand God.
Summary:
The widening of political, racial, and religious differences often leads to an "us vs. them" mentality all too common today. But is there a better way? In The Sacred Overlap, author J.R. Briggs explores how God's divinity overlaps with his humanity and communicates a refreshing vision that embraces the tension of the both/and of God's presence in the world and in us. Briggs calls us to live in radical love and faithfulness between the extremes that can easily isolate and divide people across the church and throughout the world. This is not an approach that encourages us to take whatever bits we might choose from world religions, personal preferences, and ideologies and throw them into a cosmic blender for a tasty theological smoothie. Instead, The Sacred Overlap helps readers see that Christians are called to live with their feet firmly planted in two different worlds--both heaven and earth--living naturally with grace and truth. Only then can a Christian be a faithful witness in the way of Jesus.
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