Overview

Outreach Resource of the Year The Gospel Coalition Book Award The church is at its best when it pursues the biblical value of unity in diversity. Our world has been torn asunder by racial, ethnic, and ideological differences. It is seen in our politics, felt in our families, and ingrained in our theology. Sadly, the church has often reinforced these ethnic and racial divides. To cast off the ugliness of disunity and heal our fractured humanity, we must cultivate spiritual practices that help us pursue beautiful community. In The Beautiful Community, pastor and theologian Irwyn Ince boldly unpacks the reasons for our divisions while gently guiding us toward our true hope for wholeness and reconciliation. God reveals himself to us in his trinitarian life as the perfection of beauty, and essential to this beauty is his work as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The gospel imperative to pursue the beautiful community—unity in diversity across lines of difference—is rooted in reflecting the beautiful community of our triune God. This book calls us into and provides tools for that pursuit.

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Author:   Irwyn L. Ince ,  Timothy Keller
Publisher:   InterVarsity Press
Imprint:   Inter-Varsity Press,US
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.220kg
ISBN:  

9780830848317

ISBN 10:   0830848312
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   04 August 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Timothy Keller Introduction Part 1: Seeking and Knowing Our Beautiful Creator 1. The Holy and Beautiful Habitation: Our Relational God 2. The Beauty of the Lord: Our God Is Beautiful Community 3. The Perfection of Beauty: Knowing Ourselves 4. A Crown of Beauty in the Hand of the Lord: Beautiful Community as God's Image Part 2: Restoring and Cultivating Our Beautiful Community 5. Your Beautiful Crown Has Come Down from Your Head: Ghettoization of Humanity 6. I Will Beautify My Beautiful House: Identity and Formation 7. Put On Your Beautiful Garments: Culture and Community 8. How Beautiful Are the Feet: Gospel Message—Devote to the Doctrine 9. The Beauty of Holiness: Probe the Preferences and Count the Cost 10. Our Holy and Beautiful House: Toast to the Truth Acknowledgments Notes

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Irwyn Ince is not merely a gifted thinker and writer on the subject of loving across the lines of difference. He is also, and has been for the duration of his life and ministry, a compelling practitioner of these important kingdom matters about which he writes. Irwyn is also my good friend. I have learned much from him and have been loved well by him. The same is true of the community that I serve, as we have drawn on Irwyn's wisdom in our own effort to honor the call of our Lord, who demolishes dividing walls and brings together Jew and Gentile-and every other race that is part of humanity-under Christ. If you are eager to move forward in the triune God's call to love and build community with those who are not like you, then this is the book for you. Scott Sauls, pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, author of Jesus Outside the Lines In John 17 Jesus prayed that the church would be one, just as he and the Father are one. The Beautiful Community is a clarion call to the church to image our triune God in both our unity and diversity-to see and cherish the beauty of a diverse and unified body of Christ. The church needs this book more than ever, and I'm thankful Irwyn Ince has written it. Christina Fox, writer, speaker, and author of Closer Than a Sister: How Union with Christ Helps Friendships to Flourish

"""Irwyn Ince is not merely a gifted thinker and writer on the subject of loving across the lines of difference. He is also, and has been for the duration of his life and ministry, a compelling practitioner of these important kingdom matters about which he writes. Irwyn is also my good friend. I have learned much from him and have been loved well by him. The same is true of the community that I serve, as we have drawn on Irwyn's wisdom in our own effort to honor the call of our Lord, who demolishes dividing walls and brings together Jew and Gentile-and every other race that is part of humanity-under Christ. If you are eager to move forward in the triune God's call to love and build community with those who are not like you, then this is the book for you."" Scott Sauls, pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, author of Jesus Outside the Lines ""In John 17 Jesus prayed that the church would be one, just as he and the Father are one. The Beautiful Community is a clarion call to the church to image our triune God in both our unity and diversity-to see and cherish the beauty of a diverse and unified body of Christ. The church needs this book more than ever, and I'm thankful Irwyn Ince has written it."" Christina Fox, writer, speaker, and author of Closer Than a Sister: How Union with Christ Helps Friendships to Flourish"

"""In John 17 Jesus prayed that the church would be one, just as he and the Father are one. The Beautiful Community is a clarion call to the church to image our triune God in both our unity and diversity--to see and cherish the beauty of a diverse and unified body of Christ. The church needs this book more than ever, and I'm thankful Irwyn Ince has written it.""--Christina Fox, writer, speaker, and author of Closer Than a Sister: How Union with Christ Helps Friendships to Flourish"

"""In John 17 Jesus prayed that the church would be one, just as he and the Father are one. The Beautiful Community is a clarion call to the church to image our triune God in both our unity and diversity--to see and cherish the beauty of a diverse and unified body of Christ. The church needs this book more than ever, and I'm thankful Irwyn Ince has written it."" --Christina Fox, writer, speaker, and author of Closer Than a Sister: How Union with Christ Helps Friendships to Flourish"

Author Information

Irwyn L. Ince Jr. serves as a pastor at Grace DC Presbyterian Church and director of the Grace DC Institute for Cross-Cultural Mission. He is a graduate of City College of New York, Reformed Theological Seminary, and holds a DMin from Covenant Theological Seminary. In 2018, Ince was unanimously elected as the forty-sixth Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) General Assembly moderator—the first African American to hold the position. He and his wife, Kim, have been married twenty-eight years and have four children.

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