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Neighborliness: Love Like Jesus. Cross Dividing Lines. Transform Your Community. Paperback – March 15, 2022

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Do you want to love your neighbor as yourself but don’t know where to start? This practical, accessible guide to bridging the dividing lines of politics, race, and economics, both individually and as the church, will help you amplify Jesus in your community and build God’s kingdom.

When asked what the greatest commandment is, Jesus gave a two-part answer: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength” and also “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Love God. Love others.

Jesus’ simple command to love your neighbor can feel overwhelming when your neighbor looks, lives, and votes differently than you do. Racial and economic tensions across the country have resulted in deep dividing lines that seem really intimidating to cross.

Docusen breaks down these lines in approachable chapters, including topics like these:

  • how to actively seek out people you can benefit and encourage,
  • what it means to find a diverse and supportive community that fulfills needs,
  • examples of real-life experiences, including highlights and missteps of Docusen’s ongoing journey, and
  • how churches can teach on difficult topics with grace and truth.

Neighborliness is a practical guide to bridging those dividing lines and learning to recognize and amplify the beauty of God in our communities. Backed by David’s speaking and training through the Neighborliness Center, this book will help individuals and churches reach out to their neighbors, love them through Christ, and build God’s kingdom.

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About David Docusen

David has spent the last twenty years investing into communities as a pastor, church planter, author, speaker, professor, and advocate. He and his wife, Dara, have since started two nonprofits. Docusen Ministries (founded in 2019) oversees all of their teaching, preaching, and writing ministry. The Neighborliness Center (founded in 2021) is the new home for all of their work with churches and organizations at home and across the world as we advocate for biblical justice and create practical resources for the body of Christ.

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David Docusen has spent twenty years investing into communities as a pastor, speaker, teacher, advocate, and author. After pastoring in the local church for twenty years, David and his wife, Dara, launched Docusen Ministries. Now, through the Neighborliness Center, David invests in churches, nonprofits, and businesses across the world through speaking, teaching, and writing. After completing his doctoral degree studying the cyclical patterns of generational poverty, he worked with a group of businesspeople as a founding board member of Freedom Communities, an organization that focuses on equitable access to education, employment, healthcare, and housing. He travels and speaks extensively to churches, community groups, and universities in spreading the Neighborliness message, and he also serves as a member of the executive board of Relevant magazine. David and Dara live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with their four kids: Max, Mary, Jack, and Ben.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Nelson (March 15, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0785289283
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0785289289
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.35 inches
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David Docusen has spent twenty years investing into communities as a pastor, speaker, teacher, advocate, and author. After pastoring in the local church for twenty years, David and his wife, Dara, launched The Neighborliness Center. Through this organization, David invests into churches, nonprofits, and businesses across the world through speaking, teaching, and writing.

After completing his doctoral degree studying the cyclical patterns of generational poverty, he was a founding board member of Freedom Communities—an organization that focuses on equitable access to education, employment, healthcare, and housing.

David and Dara live in Charlotte, North Carolina with their four kids: Max, Mary, Jack, and Ben.

Docusen, David. Neighborliness: Love Like Jesus. Cross Dividing Lines. Transform Your Community. (Thomas Nelson)

Docusen, David. Tomorrow & the Days to Come: A Guide for Your First Steps of Faith. (The Neighborliness Center)

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This book has the power to change all of us — how we think, how we love, and how we neighbor each other. In his book Neighborliness, David Docusen’s thoughtful, humble, beautiful storytelling surround a call for all of us to see and live with more intention. I can only read a few pages at a time before I have to stop, check my own heart, and create space to reconcile who I am with who I want to be.Buy it! Read it! Mark it up! And pray we can all live it out. I will if you will.
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Chris L.
5.0 out of 5 stars Pastor of Jesus Heart
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2022
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Pastor David, he hits the issues the church needs to hear. He guides this conversation about race and dividing lines through a Pastor's heart that points to the heart of Jesus.

As a Pastor I am challenged now to bring this message to my own church.

This is a challenging book because you will be forced to pray in ways you never knew you needed.
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Leah
5.0 out of 5 stars On time for our culture.
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2022
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Neighborliness is a message that is on time for our culture. I recommend this 100% for anyone that wants to explore loving God and neighbors.
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Steve Cesari - Author of Clarity
5.0 out of 5 stars Great message to help fix our broken country
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2022
We are reading this book as part of the learning process for a new non profit we started in Atlanta called Atlanta Connected Communities. Our mission is to provide affordable housing, to meet the felt needs of the community and to cultivate fertile ground for the Gospel to be shared. David’s book Neighborliness provides the stories, data and roadmap to bring racial and social unity back to our communities. It is based on Jesus’ greatest command to love God and love others. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to become part of the solution to this massive problem. Don’t let the Christianity get in the way of the powerful research and message of this book. If believers and non believers practiced the basic principles in this book, it would make the world a better place to live for everyone.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is an honest and sincere cry from David's heart to yours
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2022
I read this book and was so moved by how genuinely sincere David is about loving others more than yourself. He truly has a passion for caring about people who look different from him. He honestly shares from his heart the difficulty of race relations in America and in the American church. His eyes were open to himself and to others. I feel that is what makes this book so powerful. He honestly shares from his heart. That is why people need to read this book. The message must get out that we need to be neighborly towards others who don't look like you, talk like you, or live like you.
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J.E. Grace
4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Message about Neighborliness!
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2022
In David Docusen's book, "Neighborliness," he teaches how to walk in the fullness of Jesus' commandment to love our neighbors. Our neighbors aren't just the ones in our neighborhood. We need to step outside our comfort zone and fulfill the commandment by reaching out to those who come from different backgrounds. We start with new relationships-get to really know them-their needs and culture.

We need to also learn to have honest conversations about tough topics-learn to love like Jesus. We are each given the commandment as children of God and with each of us showing love towards others, we can change our world.

David also reminds us we can't love God and be lovers of money. God has to come first in our lives. If we submit to HIS will for our life, we can walk in fullness and have peace and unity.

I received a complimentary copy and voluntarily choose to review it. All opinions are my own.
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Carol in NC
5.0 out of 5 stars See and live with intention
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2022
This book has the power to change all of us — how we think, how we love, and how we neighbor each other. In his book Neighborliness, David Docusen’s thoughtful, humble, beautiful storytelling surround a call for all of us to see and live with more intention. I can only read a few pages at a time before I have to stop, check my own heart, and create space to reconcile who I am with who I want to be.
Buy it! Read it! Mark it up! And pray we can all live it out. I will if you will.
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5.0 out of 5 stars See and live with intention
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2022
This book has the power to change all of us — how we think, how we love, and how we neighbor each other. In his book Neighborliness, David Docusen’s thoughtful, humble, beautiful storytelling surround a call for all of us to see and live with more intention. I can only read a few pages at a time before I have to stop, check my own heart, and create space to reconcile who I am with who I want to be.
Buy it! Read it! Mark it up! And pray we can all live it out. I will if you will.
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JK
5.0 out of 5 stars Necessary and Timely
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2022
This is an important book that should be ordered and read now by anyone who desires to see change in our communities. This well-written call to action points us to the plan that was developed so many centuries ago for how to deal with racial, economic, and cultural differences. Unfortunately, that plan for how to treat your neighbor has been neglected by so many who claim connection with the author of the plan. Dr. Docusen masterfully and humbly reminds us of our purpose. Highly recommend.
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Ginny G.
5.0 out of 5 stars Big fan.
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2022
Timely and important. As someone who has spent a lot of their adult life in churches and ministry situations and seen several different approaches to celebrating diversity and inclusion (some not so great), this was a good read with actual insight on how to best be a daggone good neighbor to those around you, which- surprise surprise- means loving them well and in a way that honors both them and Jesus.
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