{"product_id":"the-sacred-overlap-learning-to-live-faithfully-in-the-space-between-9780310102120","title":"The Sacred Overlap: Learning to Live Faithfully in the Space Between","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe widening of political, racial, generational, and religious differences often leads to an \"us vs. them\" mentality all too common today. In \u003cem\u003eThe Sacred Overlap\u003c\/em\u003e, author J.R. Briggs communicates a refreshing vision that embraces tension and calls us to live in radical love and faithfulness between the extremes that isolate and divide people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead the gospels and you'll see how Jesus was committed to crossing cultural, social, political and religious \u003cem\u003eeither\/or\u003c\/em\u003e waters, engaging in many \u003cem\u003eand\/also\u003c\/em\u003e activities. He comforted the disturbed and also disturbed the comfortable. He was too religious for the pagans \u003cem\u003eand also\u003c\/em\u003e too pagan for the religious elites. He hung out with filthy lepers \u003cem\u003eand also\u003c\/em\u003e dined with the filthy rich. He was alarming \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e disarming at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a spineless embrace of religious syncretism where we take bits from world religions, personal preferences, and ideologies and throw them into a cosmic blender for a tasty theological smoothie. Instead, Briggs offers a fresh understanding of evangelism and discipleship, showing how we need to be engaged in both of these at the same time. He shares creative ways to engage with God's mission with those who are intrigued about Jesus, but turned off by church. He explores what it means to be joyful in the midst of heart wrenching pain and suffering in the world. And he models what it means to maintain a posture of convicted civility which emphasizes equally both grace and truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sacred Overlap\u003c\/em\u003e helps readers see that Christians are called to live with their feet firmly planted in two different worlds--in both heaven and earth--living naturally with grace and truth. Only then can a Christian be a faithful witness in the way of Jesus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zondervan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780310102120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d","brand":"J. R. Briggs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635635941532,"sku":"9780310102120","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_cb4bfa0b-9ae3-4606-9223-1c46aab7b0a7.jpg?v=1603840125","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-sacred-overlap-learning-to-live-faithfully-in-the-space-between-9780310102120","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}