As a lay person, my challenge is how to gently prompt leadership into consideration of these ideas. When the church began, an amazing diversity of people from different geographic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds gathered together to confess a common faith in Jesus Christ. “Go and learn,” Jesus charged the pious and religious, to see yourself in your neighbor, and your neighbor in yourself. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. A futile endeavor! One Body, One Spirit book. Jesus could not please everyone. Watch Queue Queue. Jesus’ heart was vast as the heavens, emanating the healing rays of the Blessed Trinity in every direction. Change ). However, Christians also have much that is in common. The arrows aimed at him, and the ropes used to tie him down, resembled the flimsy weapons used by the Lilliputians in Jonathan Swift’s novel to pin Gulliver to the ground. (Kathy H. Dudley, Board Chair and Founder, Dallas Leadership Foundation) "My heart soared with gratitude and renewed hope for the church's future as I read One Body, One Spirit. He said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him. Divinized humanity will rise from the grave. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. God has already done great things for them; but he promises to do even more wonderful things in the future. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Is there a distinction between “the righteous” and “sinners,” “the well” and “the sick”? One Body, One Spirit: Principles of Successful Multiracial Churches. Next part: One Lord, one faith, one baptism (Ephesians 4:5). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. The bulk of the book, chapters 5-12, is taken up with the proposing of 7 great principles of successful churches and unpacking the same. Pirates, plunder, and puzzles combine in Blackbeard's origin. Spirit, of course, is the Holy Spirit, the one who joins believers to Jesus and to one another, making believers from different backgrounds able to live together as they strive, with His help, to maintain this unity. One body, one Spirit, one hope Ephesians 4:4. Yancey has this advice for leaders of multiracial churches - one can continue to believe perspectives from their own racial culture but to be successful in a multiracial setting one must intentionally pursue a fusion of horizons with the perspectives of the other, not just accommodate but value the perspective of the other. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. That is "colorblindness" as an ideology implies ethnicity and culture do not matter, which is an insult. This item has a maximum order quantity limit. 5:13. He is the same Holy Spirit, although he works in and through their lives in many different ways (1 Corinthians 12:4-11). Simplify Your Pursuit of Success (Six Simple Steps to Success Book 1). Thank you for your post that helps me unbound Jesus Who I had tied down within me. Paul’s list in Ephesians 4:4-6 emphasises the importance of those things that Christians have in common. The Nazarene’s trespasses over the boundaries between “clean” and “unclean” raised eyebrows and provoked criticism and censure. He has worked with a set of researchers and authors over the years that includes Michael Emerson and Christian Smith (authors of [book:Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America|273885]) and cowrote several books with Emerson ([book:United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race|899378],[book:Transcending Racial Barriers: Toward a Mutual Obligations Approach|10265787]), and, in fact, Emerson wrote the forward to One Body One Spirit. Christians are very different from each other; and that is how God wants them to be (1 Corinthians 12:12-27). Many Gifts One Spirit Vox Cordis Chorus OLPS - Duration: 3:29.