Written by Caleb Barrows

In his book by the same name, Scot McKnight makes the case that the church is best understood as a fellowship of differents. He uses the illustration of a salad. You can cut up all your veggies and serve them on a platter, but what you really have is a veggie plate. Or you can put all your veggies together and drench them with your salad dressing of choice–the “American way”. But are you enjoying the rich flavor of the salad, or the single note of the dressing? The best way to make a salad (I’ll have to take McKnight’s word for it–I personally don’t care for roughage) is to cut & mix your ingredients together with just a touch of olive oil to enhance the flavor of each ingredient in the bowl. This is the picture he uses to describe the church as God intended–a fellowship of differents.

We are given common identity and purpose in Christ that brings us together. Not toward an aim of sameness. But to actually enhance the different flavors each person brings to the metaphorical table. This is what we’re loving about Adrian.

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