With God 2<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Skye Jethani's newest book makes a plea that we learn to see the Christian life in better terms. His proposal is to look at prepositions as a clue to how\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"With God 2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Skye Jethani's newest book makes a plea that we learn to see the Christian life in better terms. His proposal is to look at prepositions as a clue to how\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-10-31T05:05:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-10-30T16:03:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/files\/2011\/10\/Screen-shot-2011-10-19-at-8.27.20-AM-300x236.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Scot McKnight\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Scot McKnight\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/\",\"name\":\"With God 2\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-10-31T05:05:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-10-30T16:03:08+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#\/schema\/person\/5919e847c58ffe6efb5899fb61797252\"},\"description\":\"Skye Jethani's newest book makes a plea that we learn to see the Christian life in better terms. His proposal is to look at prepositions as a clue to how\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"With God 2\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/\",\"name\":\"Jesus Creed\",\"description\":\"Scot McKnight on Jesus and orthodox faith in the 21st century\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#\/schema\/person\/5919e847c58ffe6efb5899fb61797252\",\"name\":\"Scot McKnight\",\"description\":\"Scot McKnight is a recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. McKnight, author of more than fifty books, is the Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, IL.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/author\/scotmcknight\/\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"With God 2","description":"Skye Jethani's newest book makes a plea that we learn to see the Christian life in better terms. His proposal is to look at prepositions as a clue to how","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"With God 2","og_description":"Skye Jethani's newest book makes a plea that we learn to see the Christian life in better terms. His proposal is to look at prepositions as a clue to how","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/","og_site_name":"Jesus Creed","article_published_time":"2011-10-31T05:05:24+00:00","article_modified_time":"2011-10-30T16:03:08+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/files\/2011\/10\/Screen-shot-2011-10-19-at-8.27.20-AM-300x236.jpg"}],"author":"Scot McKnight","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Scot McKnight","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/","name":"With God 2","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-10-31T05:05:24+00:00","dateModified":"2011-10-30T16:03:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#\/schema\/person\/5919e847c58ffe6efb5899fb61797252"},"description":"Skye Jethani's newest book makes a plea that we learn to see the Christian life in better terms. His proposal is to look at prepositions as a clue to how","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"With God 2"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/","name":"Jesus Creed","description":"Scot McKnight on Jesus and orthodox faith in the 21st century","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/#\/schema\/person\/5919e847c58ffe6efb5899fb61797252","name":"Scot McKnight","description":"Scot McKnight is a recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. McKnight, author of more than fifty books, is the Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, IL.","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/author\/scotmcknight\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":21944,"date":"2011-10-31T00:05:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T05:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/?p=21944"},"modified":"2011-10-30T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T16:03:08","slug":"with-god-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/10\/31\/with-god-2\/","title":{"rendered":"With God 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

$\"\"$ <\/a>In his newest book, With: Reimagining the Way You Relate to God<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Skye wants us to learn to see the Christian life as a life \u201cwith\u201d God.<\/p>\n

He anchors this in the Trinity: The Son was with the Father, the Spirit was with the Father, the Son was with the Spirit, and the Spirit was with the Son. And the Father was with the Son and the Spirit.<\/p>\n

An eternality of \u201cwith-ness.\u201d This idea is potent for comprehending the Christian life, and here I\u2019m simply saying what Skye does in other terms: in this view the Christian life is seen as communion in the already-existing divine communion.<\/p>\n

Skye wants us to see that \u201cwith\u201d is not the best in a list but the first and fundamental that both explains the other prepositions better but puts them to the chase. The \u201cwith\u201d perception drives us to the heart of God and to the heart of what the Christian life is. It is about treasuring God, uniting with God, and at the same time experiencing God in the Now.<\/p>\n

As a result, Skye is able to explain better than any other \u201ctheory\u201d the triad of Paul in 1 Corinthians 13. Those who focus on \u201cwith\u201d see that the Christian life is lived:<\/p>\n

With faith, with hope, and with love.<\/p>\n

If we dwell with God, we are freed from fear and the desire to control to trust\/have faith in God. If we dwell with God we see the purpose of life and find a meaning in life that can guide us forward in faith and love. And if we dwell with God we love.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"