David Docusen
Auteur de Neighborliness : love like jesus. cross dividing lines. transform your community.
A propos de l'auteur
David Docusen has spent twenty years investing into communities as a pastor, speaker, teacher, advocate, and author. Through the Neigheorliness Center, David invests in churches, nonprofits, and businesses across the world through speaking, teaching, and writing.
Œuvres de David Docusen
Neighborliness : love like jesus. cross dividing lines. transform your community. (2022) 9 exemplaires
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- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 15
- Popularité
- #708,120
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 1
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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.… (plus d'informations)