David Docusen - Neighborliness: Love Like Jesus. Cross Dividing Lines. Transform Your Community.

Davids vision for the church and the nation are beautiful and contagious. He brings hope and light to conversations that often feel daunting and dark.

MARK BATTERSON, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR & LEAD PASTOR AT NATIONAL COMMUNITY CHURCH

In Neighborliness, David helps us understand that loving God and neighbors is often messy, challenging, and uncomfortable. However, if we are willing to engage in this holy work, we will see the peace, unity, and flourishing in our world that we desire. David offers a tangible, practical, and hopeful way forward.

CHRISTINE CAINE, FOUNDER, A21 & PROPEL

For all the years Ive known David, the two things that shine brightest in his life are his love for Jesus and his love for people. He has spent years planting and sowing seeds in communities built around Jesus and this book is such a massive reflection of that. If you let it, this book will change the intentionality you bring to every relationship, every friendship, and every neighbor.

MACK BROCK, WORSHIP ARTIST & SONGWRITER

I love the book Neighborliness because it is biblical, practical, accessible, and contextual to the twenty-first century. For anyone who wants to be obedient to the greatest commandment: Love God and love your neighbor as yourself.

DAVID M. BAILEY, FOUNDER OF ARRABON AND CO-AUTHOR OF A PEOPLE, A PLACE, AND A JUST SOCIETY STUDY SERIES

Navigating the division around race, poverty, and faith often feels like a mine field. David does a great job at getting to the core of why those divisions exist. We have forgotten what being a great neighbor looks like. David helps us remember that love is the core of what propels us to real solutions that last for an eternity.

DEREK MINOR, GRAMMY AWARDWINNING HIP-HOP ARTIST & PRODUCER

Jesus demonstrated the great commandment when He became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood. Now, David Docusen offers us a provoking, powerful, and practical tool to walk it out.

BISHOP WALTER HARVEY, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL BLACK FELLOWSHIP & THE WI+H MOVEMENT

Im hard-pressed to think of any other book as timely as Neighborliness. What would our world be like if we deliberately extended our hearts and hands across the fences, doors, and windows that separate us? Are we willing to follow Jesus example? This could have easily been an academic book thanks to David Docusens vast research and knowledge, yet he is able to communicate in an easy-to-read and captivating manner. I believe Neighborliness will inspire you to take action, as it did for me.

TESSIE GELL DEVORE, PRESIDENT, BIBLE MEDIA GROUP

The command seems so straightforward at first glance: love God and love your neighbor. But by the first chapter of Neighborliness, David Docusen has gently but skillfully drawn the reader into penetrating issues of faith that challenge the comfortable lifestyles of convenient Western Christianity. A convicting book that is disturbing in the very best sense of the word.

BOB LUPTON, COMMUNITY DEVELOPER & AUTHOR OF TOXIC CHARITY

This is a neighborly book about neighborly love. Thats not faint praise. Its actually quite difficult to call for change in a way that doesnt simply deepen our divisions, driving us to double down on what weve always believed to be right. Thankfully, Docusen never forgets and never lets us forget that theres nothing to fear in changing when it is Jesus who is changing us.

DR. CHRIS GREEN, PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC THEOLOGY

The mark of a good author is to speak a transformative message that yields relevant fruitfulness. In Neighborliness, David takes a fresh approach to a traditional message. Throughout the book, his passion for the diversity of family and community is evident. With much delight, it is good to know that David is not afraid to address tough topics like reconciliation, lament, toxicity, and restoration; racial, gender, and economic inequity. As a result of his faithfulness to the gospel, the world is a better place. Truly his perspective is needed in the technological, chaotic, and broken society of the twenty-first century.

DR. BARBARA PEACOCK, AUTHOR OF SOUL CARE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN PRACTICE

David Docusen is the prophet the church needs in this day and age. His message echoes what was written all along in the life of Jesus: love God and your neighbor in word and practice. In Neighborliness, David challenges us toward unity and reminds us that its never too late to prioritize your neighbor.

DR. JOEL C. HUNTER, PRESIDENT, THE PARABLE FOUNDATION

Amid a world reeling from cynicism, skepticism and racism, David has been able to capture the essence of the love of Christ and how it was intended to be manifested in human interaction. Davids message is riveting because it expresses the passion born from genuine and sincere love for people, recognizing the image and likeness of the Creator in each one.

DR. REV. PATRICK PAUL, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ASSEMBLIES OF GOD

Neighborliness

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