{"id":37484,"date":"2020-11-02T10:39:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T02:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/?p=37484"},"modified":"2020-11-02T10:39:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T02:39:31","slug":"the-upside-down-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/?p=37484","title":{"rendered":"The Upside Down Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Book Review and Critique &#8211; 1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The Upside Down Kingdom.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\">(Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont., Canada), 2011.(256 pages)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Author: Kraybill, Donald B.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Summary of main idea<\/span><\/strong><br \/>The book is about the upside down kingdom Jesus ushered Christians into, inviting us to look deeply into Christ\u2019s message, to see the radical life He was calling us to and how He was not only countercultural in His day but also in our own. Concern for the poor, oppressed and the alien is essential to true spirituality and the gospel.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Three strengths<\/span><\/strong><br \/>First, it is informative, engaging, smooth, each chapter moves easily into the next. Second, it carries a challenging, life-changing message and claims of the gospel which calls us to put others first before we think about our own comfort zones. Third, it has useful discussion questions and comprehensive notes for each chapter to facilitate group study (pp.257-280)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Three weaknesses<\/span> <\/strong><br \/>First, the author\u2019s assertion that \u201cJesus\u2019 temptation, isn\u2019t to gobble down boulders of bread to relieve a forty-day fast\u201d (p.71) and his subsequent remarks, go far beyond what is in the Bible (Matt.4). Second, some chapters could have been combined such as 2-4; 8-9. Third, too much space is spent on distinction of \u2018agape\u2019 love (ch.9) at the expense of sound exegesis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Quotation<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\u201cWe live in a future already bursting upon us. We\u2019re the ones who turn the world upside down because we know there is another King named Jesus. As children of the Most High, we welcome the reign of God in our corporate lives each day.\u201d (Kraybill, 2011:256)<\/p>\n<h6><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Article by Rev. Dr. Philip Ang Keng Yong<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Zion Methodist Church, Sibu<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review and Critique &#8211; 1 The Upside Down Kingdom.Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition,(Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont., Canada), 2011.(256 pages)Author: Kraybill, Donald B. Summary of main ideaThe book is about the upside down kingdom Jesus ushered Christians into, inviting us to look deeply into Christ\u2019s message, to see the radical life He was calling us to and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,10,272],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaccmm.sarawakmethodist.org\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}