Thabiti Anyabwile extends Henry Scougal's classic from the individual soul to the congregation - union with Christ as the basis of real fellowship. Read more.
In this book Thabiti Anyabwile repositions our thinking about spiritual fellowship. Taking up the concept of divine life presented in Henry Scougal's classic The Life of God in the Soul of Man, he contends that union with Christ is not merely a private possession but the ground on which a congregation's common life actually rests.
The argument matters practically: if fellowship is grounded in shared union with Christ rather than in affinity, then a church's unity does not depend on its members being similar, and the work of membership looks different. Anyabwile writes as a pastor, with the particular concerns of a local congregation in view throughout. A good companion to Scougal's original.
