Father Abraham Has Many Sons and Daughters
The Family of Transformed Relationships
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Father Abraham Has Many Sons and Daughters is about relationships that transform communities. It focuses on transformation and relationships. It begins with an exploration of the biblical roots of God’s family and its mission and what it means to be the household of God. Then it shows why we need transformation, what it is, and how it happens. Finally, by combining transformation and relationships, the book will show you how a transforming community functions.
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Racism, greed, and politics: these are skeletons from the past that have come to haunt the Church, and the younger generations are demanding answers. In the United States, the African-American community holds the “white church” responsible for their plight with slavery. Throughout history, the Church has been under pressure to negotiate a secular compromise that nullifies its testimony. Is the Church going to continue in denial, or will it model the gospel’s transforming power?
Father Abraham has Many Sons and Daughters, highlights the Church as the family of transformed relationships. It focuses on transformation among the people of God and how it forms the foundation for our witness today. Traditional studies of how the gospel transforms individuals and communities focus on the believer’s character as the predictor of transformation. This book brings a needed balance by focusing on Kingdom relationships as the context of transformation through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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“Father Abraham Has Many Sons And Daughters expands, deepens, and challenges us to embrace the dynamic concept of transformation. Dr. Rabih Sabra puts transformation in a broader and richer context by using it to describe the Body of Jesus Christ as a “family of transformed relationships.” As a member of the thousand-year-old Druze community in Lebanon, God has used him to establish the first church among this people group. The Access Team initiative has introduced and cultivated multi-dimensional personal, social, spiritual, and communal transformation. I can think of no place on Planet Earth where this ministry of change is not urgently needed.”
Wilbert R. Shenk
Professor Emeritus
School of Intercultural Studies
Fuller Theological Seminary
Pasadena, California