{"id":5870,"date":"2016-01-21T07:02:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T13:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2016-10-22T09:36:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:36:22","slug":"the-art-of-neighboring-by-book-pathak-and-runyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5870","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Neighboring by Pathak and Runyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book: Pathak, Jay, and Dave Runyon. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/customer-reviews\/R3JWDVCO1VC6AE\/ref=cm_cr_pr_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B0073UN9CQ\" target=\"_blank\">The Art of Neighboring<\/a>: Building Genuine Relationships Right Outside Your Door. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>For a full review &#8211; click the link above<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Point: Until we recognize that \u201cneighbor\u201d in the second greatest command in Scripture can actually mean \u201csomeone living next to us,\u201d we will fail to see our responsibility to those God has placed in our lives to love.<\/p>\n<p>Agreement: I appreciated the challenge. How easy is it for me to generalize \u201cneighbor\u201d to everyone, and miss the individual right next door. It was very convicting to see what was, and at the same time, exciting to see what could be.<\/p>\n<p>Personal App: Am I loving my neighbor specifically? Do I know my neighbor?<\/p>\n<p>Stars:\u00a0 4.5 out of 5<\/p>\n<p>It would be worth another read and I would recommend it to someone who:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is interested in obeying the Great Commandment<\/li>\n<li>Is looking for good ideas about how to love their neighbor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other books along this theme would be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coleman, Robert E. The Master Plan of Evangelism. Revell, 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Dever, Mark. The Gospel and Personal Evangelism. First Edition. Crossway, 2007.<\/li>\n<li>Stiles, J. Mack. Evangelism: How the Whole Church Speaks of Jesus. Crossway, 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book: Pathak, Jay, and Dave Runyon. The Art of Neighboring: Building Genuine Relationships Right Outside Your Door. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012. For a full review &#8211; click the link above Point: Until we recognize that \u201cneighbor\u201d in the second greatest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=5870\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,72,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-evangelism-discipleship","category-top-shelf-book"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-1wG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5873,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions\/5873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}