Description: What practices might a community of faith take up that
will bear witness to the alternative world Jesus envisions and
calls us towards? That is the question that Grandview Calvary
Baptist Church, an initially small and fragile group of Christ
followers, has kept asking over the last twenty years. Along the
way, this small group has spawned a vibrant community of faith that
has traveled along four trajectories towards a shared life in
community, radical hospitality, justice for the least, and
confession leading to transformation. In a culture where
individualism, consumerism, injustice, and autonomy shape us all,
these practices have re-shaped not only the people of this church
but also the neighborhood they inhabit in the East side of
Vancouver, British Columbia. For anyone wanting to recover ancient
but newly shaped practices of the first disciples, Plunging into
the Kingdom Way offers renewed hope. By relating their story in
conversation with a host of theologians, sociologists, and
philosophers, Tim Dickau sparks the imagination for how you and
your friends, your community, or your church can live out the
radical vision of Jesus in your neighborhood today. Plunge in and
you will discover renewed hope that you can actually follow the way
of Jesus today. Endorsements: ."" . . a deeply compelling and
engaging portrait of a community that practices hospitality and
justice while nurturing a strong spiritual and communal life. Tim
Dickau's careful description of a single congregation gives his
readers excellent resources for imagining what a fuller commitment
to a Kingdom way might look like in their own contexts.""
-Christine D. Pohl Professor of Social Ethics, Asbury Theological
Seminary Author of Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a
Christian Tradition ""It is one thing to 'talk the talk.' It is
quite another to 'walk the walk.' This book exhibits the way in
which Grandview Calvary Baptist Church (led by Tim Dickau) walks
the walk in freedom and courage and wisdom. The current crisis in
the church leads us to fall back on specific narratives, so that we
may learn what is true and transferable from one community of
discipleship to another. Dickau offers a full measure of practical
theology that is permeated with justice, generosity, hospitality,
and forgiveness. This book will guide and empower others to walk by
faith where our sight increasingly fails us."" -Walter Brueggemann
Columbia Theological Seminary ""The story that Tim Dickau tells
here is the story of a congregation that has heard and received the
good news: 'The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe
the good news.' That is, this congregation has dared to submit
their life to this coming kingdom and its Lord. In doing so, they
have learned to serve where they have been placed. The life that
they have found in this submission has not been hoarded or
protected behind high walls and thick doors. Instead this life has
been given away in their neighborhood, on their streets, in their
homes, coffee shops, and markets. It is a public faith shaped in
community by joyful and hard discipline. The story is not complete
but its end is certain because the vision that empowers their
witness is the crucified and risen Messiah sent by the love of the
Father and present today in the power of the Holy Spirit. Anyone
who reads this story takes the risk of being captured by that same
vision and called to deeper life in the kingdom. Surely that is the
good news of Christ."" -Jonathan R. Wilson Carey Theological
College Author, Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World
""Multiculturalism is on everyone's lips these days, but we are
still struggling with entrenched barriers that perpetuate exclusion
and suspicion. This book shows us why diversity must be pursued
along with hospitality, repentance, and justice. Tim Dickau warns
us that the kingdom of God is no simple excursion and has provided
a pilgrim's roadmap honed by prayer, failures, awkwardness, su
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