{"id":4864,"date":"2016-04-19T07:45:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2020-08-24T08:47:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T12:47:39","slug":"a-fellowship-of-differents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fellowship of Differents"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Written by Caleb Barrows<\/h3>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B00L0SEGW4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book by the same name<\/a>, 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\u2013the \u201cAmerican way\u201d. 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\u2019ll have to take McKnight\u2019s word for it\u2013I personally don\u2019t care for roughage) is to cut &amp; 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\u2013a fellowship of differents.<\/p>\n<p>We are given common identity and purpose in Christ that brings us together. Not toward an aim of sameness. But to actually <strong>enhance<\/strong> the different flavors each person brings to the metaphorical table. This is what we\u2019re loving about Adrian.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ncadrian.com\/2015\/12\/18\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"width:calc( 100% + 0px ) !important;max-width:calc( 100% + 0px ) !important;margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-flex-start fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To continue reading, visit Neighborhood Church&#8217;s website, <a href=\"https:\/\/ncadrian.com\/2015\/12\/18\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ncadrian.com<\/a>.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002,"featured_media":4865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,7,46,41],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Fellowship of Differents - Fellowship of Evangelical Churches<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Fellowship of Differents - Fellowship of Evangelical Churches\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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 [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fellowship of Evangelical Churches\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FECMinistries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-04-19T11:45:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-24T12:47:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salad-Hands-web.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"751\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Eric Hall\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Eric Hall\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Eric Hall\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#\/schema\/person\/ee33fa86d71f4b48aa574faa9cd8efb0\"},\"headline\":\"A Fellowship of Differents\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-19T11:45:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-24T12:47:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/\"},\"wordCount\":283,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salad-Hands-web.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Adrian Michigan\",\"Homepage\",\"Initiatives\",\"Pastors' Blogs\",\"Synergy Church Planting Network - Ohio\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/\",\"name\":\"A Fellowship of Differents - Fellowship of Evangelical Churches\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salad-Hands-web.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-19T11:45:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-08-24T12:47:39+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salad-Hands-web.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salad-Hands-web.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":751},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"A Fellowship of Differents\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/\",\"name\":\"Fellowship of Evangelical Churches\",\"description\":\"Fellowship of Evangelical Churches\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Fellowship of Evangelical Churches\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FEC_logo_blue-_church_planting_retina.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FEC_logo_blue-_church_planting_retina.png\",\"width\":440,\"height\":118,\"caption\":\"Fellowship of Evangelical Churches\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FECMinistries\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#\/schema\/person\/ee33fa86d71f4b48aa574faa9cd8efb0\",\"name\":\"Eric Hall\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dc248ef2e2c74b83e3708b01be914556?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dc248ef2e2c74b83e3708b01be914556?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Eric Hall\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/author\/eric\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"A Fellowship of Differents - Fellowship of Evangelical Churches","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"A Fellowship of Differents - Fellowship of Evangelical Churches","og_description":"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 [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/","og_site_name":"Fellowship of Evangelical Churches","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FECMinistries","article_published_time":"2016-04-19T11:45:58+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-08-24T12:47:39+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":751,"url":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salad-Hands-web.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Eric Hall","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Eric Hall","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/"},"author":{"name":"Eric Hall","@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#\/schema\/person\/ee33fa86d71f4b48aa574faa9cd8efb0"},"headline":"A Fellowship of Differents","datePublished":"2016-04-19T11:45:58+00:00","dateModified":"2020-08-24T12:47:39+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/"},"wordCount":283,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salad-Hands-web.jpg","articleSection":["Adrian Michigan","Homepage","Initiatives","Pastors' Blogs","Synergy Church Planting Network - Ohio"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/","url":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/","name":"A Fellowship of Differents - Fellowship of Evangelical Churches","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salad-Hands-web.jpg","datePublished":"2016-04-19T11:45:58+00:00","dateModified":"2020-08-24T12:47:39+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salad-Hands-web.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Salad-Hands-web.jpg","width":1024,"height":751},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/a-fellowship-of-differents\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"A Fellowship of Differents"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/","name":"Fellowship of Evangelical Churches","description":"Fellowship of Evangelical Churches","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#organization","name":"Fellowship of Evangelical Churches","url":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FEC_logo_blue-_church_planting_retina.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/FEC_logo_blue-_church_planting_retina.png","width":440,"height":118,"caption":"Fellowship of Evangelical Churches"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FECMinistries"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#\/schema\/person\/ee33fa86d71f4b48aa574faa9cd8efb0","name":"Eric Hall","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dc248ef2e2c74b83e3708b01be914556?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dc248ef2e2c74b83e3708b01be914556?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Eric Hall"},"url":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/author\/eric\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fecministries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}