oneness embraced -- a book review

Tony Evans' Oneness Embraced:  Reconciliation, the Kingdom, and How We are Stronger Together explores what Evans calls "the Kingdom agenda" for blacks and whites in the United States.  It's a book that is at once fresh (like the blowing of the Spirit always is) and challenging -- here, Evans addresses racism, divided worship, and numerous stereotypes.  And at every turn, there's a freshness to Evans' message that bespeaks his pastoral heart for the Body of Christ to live together, in full unity, displaying the unity that is made possible by Jesus Christ himself.

Oneness Embraced is a full biblical vision for that deals with the "what" and the "so what" for unity in the Church -- a unity that can become the template for reconciling transformation in the wider world.

But that vision is an informed vision.  Here, Evans tackles the tough history of the Black Church, and helps readers understand that the unique voice of the Black Church (embodied in folks like Martin Luther King, Jr) isn't simply a social transformation.  At its core, its a theological gift of the Spirit, enlived and lived in the daily world of racism, poverty and violence.

Which is why the most important chapters in Oneness Embraced are those final chapters -- where Christians gain real pastoral wisdom for living life together.

Oneness Embraced in an amazing resource -- particularly in a time and place as our own.

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I received a free copy of this book from Moody Publishing in exchange for my honest review here.