100% Multiracial by Kyle Waalen

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The latest Census estimates show that multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic group in the United States. Yet many still struggle with the question of how many boxes to check. Two Christian…

7 Principles of the New Culture – Introduction

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It was September 22, 2001 in Queens, New York. Those of us who lived in New York City were still reeling from the attacks on the World Trade Center. Smoke from the remains of the two towers could still be seen from miles

9 Basic Steps For Transitioning To A Multi-ethnic Church By Art Lucero

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“The increasing diversity of communities and the declining demographic of established churches offers them the opportunity to transition from a mono-ethnic to a multi-ethnic congregation. Here are nine basic steps to take your church through the process.

Study your community. Familiarize yourself with the demographics of your community and their needs. Ministering to one’s felt needs allows you to minister to the real need the forgiveness of sins. Community service type ministries not only meet the needs of the community but they can build a bridge to share the Gospel.”

A Better Vision for Short-Term Missions by Eric Iverson

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“It is my responsibility to fight the economic conditions, which we introduce to thousands of Christians every year, so that they may create life-change for their students and then maybe those communities too.”

A Biblical Theology of the City by Tim Keller

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A Framework for Social Healing by Andrew Sears

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“This material provides an introduction to a vision of “Social Healing” as a way to transform ourselves, our churches and our society to address injustice and bring the Gospel to our communities and the world. The goal of this material will help us to better understand our own church cultures and how to foster minority cultures within our church communities to develop communities that can more effectively address injustice.”

A Guide to African-Americans and Religion

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A Guide to Hispanics and Religion in the U.S.

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A More Excellent Way by Brenda Salter McNeil

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An update on Dr. McNeil’s biographical information at the end of this article…
This article was published in 2005 while she was serving on staff with InterVarsity.  She is currently serving as President…

A Multi-Ethnic Ministry Framework for Campus Ministry: Holding Tightly to the Lord and Loosely to Our Own Agenda by Paul Sorrentino

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“Majority people have many of their social and cultural core issues addressed by the broader society and may not even need to think about them. Because of this, majority people are much more likely to focus on personal core issues. Because personal core issues are common to all people, there is some attraction to these areas for people of color as well. However, like Eric Erikson’s basic needs pyramid, it is far more difficult for students of color to focus on personal core issues alone when so many other needs are pressing.”

A Multiethnic Model of the Church by Russell Rosser

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“The multiethnic, multicongregational church is a church that has adopted the challenge of biblical justice and mission in the context of cultural diversity, racial tensions, increased pluralism, and multiple linguistic and cultural complexities to build symbiotic relationships and harmony between diverse groups, intent on bringing biblical reconciliation between them. The foundation for this display of the Kingdom of God is the reconciling power of the cross of Christ that brings people to obedience to the vision of God for all humanity. The multiethnic and multicongregational church provides for both autonomy and interdependency.”

A New Day Dawning? by David R. Swartz

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“In Jesus and Justice he does precisely that, circling back to Friday’s injustices, only to return again to Sunday in declaring his confidence in a resurrection of authentic social justice. Switching metaphors, Heltzel concludes that American evangelicalism has matured into a prophetic movement “in a shade of blue-green—blue representing the tragedy of black suffering and green symbolizing the hope of a new social engagement with poverty, AIDS, and the environment.”

A New Kind of Urban Christian by Tim Keller

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A Repenting Church by Doug Tegner

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“There are four sins we must deal with. (And I described instances of Arrogance, Hydroplaning, Gossip, and Gracelessness.) All have been observed in Pulpit, and Pew, and Parking Lot, and Public. These four venues describe our sins’ scope as we have seen these sins emanate from leaders and subgroups within the congregation; individually in the parking lot, and often displayed in front of the community—among non-believers as well as Christians from other churches.”

A Study on Race in the New Testament by William Larkin

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“Racial/ ethnic prejudice was a definite factor in ancient life and thought. Relations among the ethnic groups in an ever expanding Roman empire was a problem to be constantly addressed. And for Christianity with its gospel for all peoples, the barriers of prejudice spawned by pride, fear, and the desire to dominate had to be broken through if the church was to be a faithful expression of the truths on which it was founded.”

A Tale of Three Churches by Gary Teja

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"When it comes to racial and ethnic diversity in the Christian Reformed Church, these are the best of times—and the worst of times. Churches either succeed at becoming multiethnic…

Advice To My Nephew Woodworm On The Subject Of Worship, By Uncle Tapescrew By Ronald Man

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“My dear Woodworm,

When human creatures first come into the world, they are notorious for their single-minded focus on their basic needs, and their effectiveness in making those needs known. They make it very clear to everyone around them that they want what they want, and they want it NOW, and they won’t rest until they get it. — Delightfully, many of them never seem to advance beyond this stage!”

African Americans in World Missions

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An Incomplete Reconciliation

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But it is not just the straightforward testimony to life with Christ that stirred me. Ironically, in the week since first reading Home to Holly Springs, I have found that it is Karon’s limited reckoning with racism that…

Arizona, immigration reform and Christian values by Gabriel Salguero and David P. Gushee

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Just as Evangelicals in times past have stood together on the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, and global struggles against poverty, religious persecution, and AIDS/HIV, we must once again demonstrate a mosaic of solidarity around comprehensive immigration reform–a reform that reflects God’s mandate to remember the stranger for we were once strangers.

Asian American views on Ethnic Specific Ministry and Multi-ethnic Ministry by Collin Tomikawa & Sandy Schaupp

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“For many in the majority culture, ethnicity is a non-category. It is not something many think about and perhaps can create a blind spot in how we see the Scriptures. Ironically, in many Asian American specific settings ethnic identity is never explored. Race and ethnicity are not things the Scriptures are silent about. Perhaps as the Asian American community gains more perspective on race and culture in the Scriptures we can bring a more accurate picture of our God to the Church.”

Barna Group: America’s Seven Faith Tribes Hold the Key to National Restoration

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“Many of our religious organizations have focused on competing for bodies, dollars and talent rather than upholding core values such as service, obedience, simplicity, purpose, responsibility, accountability, humility, compassion and community. Without our faith tribes playing their historic role as the moral and spiritual leaders of the nation, we have taken our values cues from the political and business sectors. That has lowered the bar on character and vision. That, in turn, has led the nation to deteriorate from a place on unity amidst diversity to a place of individualism amidst competition for personal comfort and supremacy.”

Believe it? Then live it! By Andrew Smith

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“At the heart of the gospel is the message of reconciliation. The American Heritage Dictionary associates reconciliation more closely with penance – an act of devotion performed voluntarily to show sorrow for a sin or other wrongdoing. Our need to demonstrate reconciliation culturally and ethnically within our churches is not about pursuing uniformity or cultural and ethnic dismantlement. Reconciliation is a message of togetherness and oneness. Intentional or unintentional exclusivity is not simply a matter of personal preference…it is sin that needs to be set right.”

Beyond the Comfort Zone by Jin S. Kim

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Beyond the Comfort Zone by Rob Corcoran

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Blessed Are the Courageous

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Blessed is the Law—Up to a Point

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Can Megachurches Bridge the Racial Divide?

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But in some churches, the racial divide is beginning to erode, and it is fading fastest in one of American religion’s most conservative precincts: Evangelical Christianity. According to Michael Emerson, a specialist on race and faith at Rice University, the proportion of American churches with 20% or more minority participation has languished at about 7.5% for the past nine years. But among Evangelical churches with attendance of 1,000 people or more, the slice has more than quadrupled, from 6% in 1998 to 25% in 2007.

Change Colors by Edward Gilbreath

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“Racial reconciliation among evangelicals is one of those slippery topics that come and go based on which national leader is currently jazzed about it. Back in the mid-1990s, when the Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, and Promise Keepers were riding high on the reconciliation bandwagon, it was all the rage. But Christians who are engaged in race and justice issues on a daily basis know that these periods of heightened interest typically fade after people lose that initial ‘we are one’ buzz.”

Choosing Multi-Ethnic Over Mega by Brandon O’Brien

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Christians For Comprehensive Immigration Reform by CCIR

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We call for an end to the unproductive, divisive, and fear-driven anti-immigrant rhetoric in the media, which has often castigated all immigrants, regardless of citizenship status, and derailed attempts at true reform. As Christian leaders who share the biblical values named below, we commit to fostering civil dialogue on immigration in our churches and in our communities. We call on President Barack Obama to provide the leadership necessary to move from the hateful rhetoric that has often characterized this national debate to action that will fix our broken immigration system. We look forward to working alongside the president to lead a new national conversation on immigration policy that reflects the best of our moral and civic values.

Color Blindness, Political Correctness, or Racial Reconciliation: Christian Ethics and Race by George Yancey

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“Reconciliation theology offers a third way to examine the problems of race within our society. It is an ideology that evangelicals may be able to use to attract non-believers who are dissatisfied with the answers that they have received from the two secular models. It is also a model by which Christians can gain a better understanding of racial issues. Therefore, we must find ways to communicate our vision of reconciliation to the larger American society. We need our churches to go beyond superficial racial platitudes to make the Body of Christ an instrument that develops healthy, close, egalitarian, and reconciled racial relationships.”

Developing a Multi-ethnic, Multi-cultural Praise Team By Gregory Hooper

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“Our mission statement as a worship arts ministry is ‘To celebrate Jesus’ life transforming power through creative arts, to create an atmosphere that invites people of all ethnicities to worship the living God and to cultivate spiritual growth and character development in all of our members.’”

Down with the Homogeneous Unit Principle? by David Swanson

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“The HUP is seen less favorably these days, but it remains common for church planters to target culturally similar people. Categories such as cultural elites, the creative class, or young professionals may sound exotic but are often used to describe people most like the church planter.”

Education in Color By Christine Scheller

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“I do not suggest that every family raising a child of a different race pick up roots and move to an integrated community or join an integrated church (obviously, this will not be possible for everyone). Despite the negatives, for us, having done so was one of the best parenting decisions we ever made.”

Eight Trends That Will Shape the Future of Global Missions by Eric Swanson

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“The future of missions will be shaped by mutuality between East and West, North and South, sending and receiving nations. Because there are now vibrant believers and thriving churches in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eurasia, and even the Middle East, we in the West shouldn’t think of ourselves as the saving force in world missions. Churches worldwide are learning to come together.”

Empowering Communities – Interview with John Perkins

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“We have developed a program called the Voorhees Ave. Leadership House. This is a joint program with Seattle Pacific University. At the house we are taking young black men and adding young white men, primarily from Seattle, who come down and go to school at Jackson State. Jackson State is an all-black school and so the white students become a minority. What we have at the Voorhees Ave. House is a sort of a reconciling community. We are supporting those young blacks and also helping them to overcome their own inferiority, and of course we are helping the whites to overcome their superiority. That’s what that house is for. It is an experiment; it takes time.”

Enlarging your worship culture

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Ethnic Blends by Mark DeYmaz

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“In one church I know, over 100 people were hired, over the course of eight years, to fill positions of leadership. But only two minorities were hired in ministry positions, and one in an administrative role. Yet this was a town that was nearly 40 percent black! Each time a new pastor was hired, the leaders would say, ‘We are pleased to announce that we have found the best man for the job.’ He was always white and in many other ways reflective of core leadership.”

Ethnic Blends? by Mark DeYmaz

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Exit Interviews: Why blacks are leaving evangelical ministries by Edward Gilbreath

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Five Steps Toward Christian Intercultural Teaching by Jim Sutherland

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Flipping the Switch by Angie Ward

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“Rick was a changed man, and the principles behind what happened to him—and what must happen for any individual or organization to change—are the subject of Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath.”

From Galatia to Baltimore by Robert Lynn

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From Multiethnic Family to Multiethnic Church by Peter Park

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“Mike explains: the multiethnic church lives out the gospel; in essence…it is the gospel. There is more reconciliation, hope, healing, and problems that get solved when you’re involved in a multiethnic church. And the truth of the matter is you are going to get resistance from people in your own congregation, denomination, and peers. If it isn’t a conviction, then you’ll quit and go back to what you were doing before.”

Getting Real About Reconciliation by Todd Minturn

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Going to Bat for His Neighbors

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Harder than Anyone Can Imagine

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"Hybels: Willow Creek started in the era when, as the book noted, the church-growth people were saying, "Don’t dissipate any of your energies fighting race issues. Focus everything on…

Hope Deferred by Stephen Carter

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How the Faith of African-Americans Has Changed

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“Compared to the other three ethnic groups, blacks emerged as the most likely to engage in each of five church-related activities in a typical week (attending church services, participating in a small group, attending a Sunday school class, praying, and reading the Bible). They were also the most likely to have made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life and to have an “active faith” (i.e., attend church services, pray to God and read from the Bible during the week). They also had the lowest proportion of unchurched adults and were the ethnic group least likely to be Catholic.”

Hues in the Pews by John Dart

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" The Congregations Project, based at Rice, is believed to be the first large study focused on racial and ethnic diversity within Christian houses of worship. Emerson and colleagues…

I Wouldn’t Use This Word With Koreans by Peter Park

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“Sometimes the only places you can make fun of your own culture is within your own culture or amongst a very close group of friends.” 

In Class Today: Mosaic Churches by David Park

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“Culture is one of those weird words. Anyone who has studied anthropology may know how slippery this word is. Some definitions then… Culture: variously defined–all culture participates in both the dignity of humanity created in God’s image AND in the brokenness of humanity. Multiculture: either pluralistic, where each culture contributes to the whole, or particularistic, where concern is to preserve the particular characteristics of each. Multiethnic: consisting of people from various “people groups” (cultural, tribal, national identities = “the ethnos”)”

Interview with Charles Marsh

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Interview with Chris Rice

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Interview with Dave Gibbons

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“Well, I did notice just how ethnocentric congregations were. I had grown up in a pretty homogeneous white church and went to megachurches that were all white. That always bothered me. Why was this going on?

Then I went to a Korean Church and quickly realized they had the same issues. If the truth were known, they’d hate it if their children married an African America guy—or, for many of them, even a white guy.”

Interview with InterVarsity’s Director of Multiethnic Ministries

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Interview with John Perkins

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Interview with Rick Richardson and Brenda Salter-McNeil

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In what ways does God prod Christians today to "get out of Jerusalem"?
Brenda: The dominant culture of the United States is experiencing some major wake-up calls. I don’t think you have to be one political party or…

Interview with Rick Richardson and Brenda Salter-McNeil

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“When we stay isolated like the disciples initially did, in our Jerusalem, wherever that might be—our Presbyterianism, my Pentecostalism, my suburb or my city, my Black church or your Latino church or your Chinese Christian church—when we stay too long in Jerusalem, we start to think that reconciliation begins and ends there.”

Interview with the staff of River City Community Church

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“Most of our new people are white. But there’s a revolving door with the white community here. They have a romantic notion of being part of a multi-ethnic church, so many of them get frustrated and leave when they realize how difficult it is to release their assumptions about the way church is supposed to be.”

Introduction to Cross Cultural Ministry by Jim Sutherland

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Is Jesus Welcome in Justice Efforts? By Tim Avery

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“Fifteen years ago, some Christians volunteered to help serve and prepare food for a New York City AIDS hospice with a clientele primarily of homosexual men. Since the hospice was involved in the gay rights movement, its administrators were nervous about letting church volunteers inside their doors. They made the expectations clear: you can come and serve, but don’t proselytize.”

Is Your Baby Racist? by Bronson and Merryman

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For decades, it was assumed that children see race only when society points it out to them. However, child-development researchers have increasingly begun to question that presumption.

It’s About Moral, Not Market, Values

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As the only African-American female faculty member on the campus, clearly I represented what the college meant by “diversity.” But when I asked questions designed to prompt thinking about the relationship between the college’s history and mission and…

Jesus the Jew in America by Peter Goodwin Heltzel

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Carter’s bold vision stands as a challenge to black and white theological projects alike. He calls black theologians to drop essentialist notions of blackness in order to center their racial critique in what is distinctively Christian about their Christian identity. Carter calls white theologians to confession and repentance; by identifying the idol of whiteness in Christian modernity, white theologians can begin to relinquish their power and privilege through a deep engagement with a prophetic stream of black Christianity that has been rendered invisible in traditional theology.

Jewish and Samaritan Relations During the Time of Christ

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Why should we care about how Jews and Samaritans related to one another 2000 years ago?  Because their relationship provides extremely helpful context to understanding how Jesus and the early Christian church dealt with ethnic divisions and animosity.  Learning about…

Learning as Transformation: Implications for the Church in Mission to the World by Various Authors

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“While the diversity within this collection of articles provides a range of perspectives and implications, it is hoped that these ideas would contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of both personal and social transformation and the implications for our ministry in the world today.”

Let the Walls Come Down by William Seymour

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“He had a dream, that people of all colors would worship together, under the power of the Holy Spirit, during a time period where racial hatred and strife was at peaking. He spent his life seeking this dream, and he would not relinquish this dream, even unto the end. Unfortunately, many of the inheritors of his legacy have steered the course of the Pentecostal movement away from his original dream, but Seymour himself should be remembered as the pioneer of this powerful movement.”

Metaphors for the Church

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What is like a family, a bride, branches on a vine, an olive tree, a field of crops, a harvest, a temple, a group of priests, God’s house, a pillar, and a body? – US!  The Bible is filled…

Minority babies set to become majority in 2010

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“Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years. In fact, demographers say this year could be the “tipping point” when the number of babies born to minorities outnumbers that of babies born to whites.”

More Than Family by Chris Rice

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Multi-ethnic Churches listed in Outreach’s 2009 Top 100 & Fastest Growing and Largest Churches

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“’Our research indicates that churches don’t like to identify themselves by ethnicity, so it’s difficult to determine an accurate number of ethnic or multi-ethnic churches on both Outreach 100 lists. However, we do know that many megachurches are intentionally focused on reaching more cultures and ethnicities. And according to Leadership Network’s 2005 Megachurches Today study, slightly more than half of the megachurches surveyed said they were making efforts to become intentionally multi-ethnic.’”
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Multi-Ethnic Novelty by Dr. Paul Louis Metzger

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“The gospel of reconciliation calls us out from affinity groupings based on cliques that intentionally or unintentionally exclude those who are different from us according to race, class, gender, generation, etc. Unfortunately, people don’t just shop in bookstores. Many people inside and outside the church in North America view the church as “a vendor of religious services and goods” (Hunsberger, in Missional Church, p. 84); they look for churches that will “sell” them the religious goods and services that they as individuals and as individual nuclear families want, not what they ultimately need relationally as citizens of God’s communal (and not commodity-) kingdom. We need to be expanded relationally, moved beyond hanging out simply with our “own kind of people,” moving toward being enriched by Jesus’ people from diverse backgrounds, and moving into the realization of God’s kingdom.”

Multi-ethnic Worship: What does God desire? By Josh Davis

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“Many times as we approach the subject of worship, we are asking the wrong questions. What kind of music do they like? What are the felt needs of the congregation? Who is our target audience? In what ways can we best worship God? But, what if, instead, we were to ask the question: What does GOD desire?”

Multiracial Congregations in America

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Multiracial in the Age of Obama By Kyle Waalen

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“Mixed-race people reflect that part of God’s heart which is all about “breaking down the wall of hostility and making the two one.” In our very creation, we represent God’s commitment to reconciliation.”

Music of the Heart, The Key ingredient to engaging a multi-cultural community in multi-cultural worship By Linnea Carnes

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“Immanuel Evangelical Covenant Church includes first generation immigrants from about fifteen nationalities. I am constantly trying to learn what is meaningful in worship to people from these diverse backgrounds. Meeting the worship needs of people from so many different countries seems impossible. Every culture has a slightly different style and focus in its worship.”

Omaha’s Justice Journey by Amanda Long

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“From Omaha, the group traveled to Selma, Birmingham, and Atlanta and toured sites such as the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, the Civil Rights Institute, the Martin Luther King Center, Ebenezer Baptist Church, the grave site of Dr. King and his wife, Coretta, the Slavery and Civil War Museum, the National Voting Rights Museum, and the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of the ‘Bloody Sunday’ conflict that disrupted the Selma march.”

Omaha’s Justice Journey, Part 2 by Amanda Long

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“It is too early to tell the impact in Omaha, but the outlook is positive. For example, one of the goals of the Justice Journey is to raise awareness of social justice issues and how they are rooted in the past. Many of the church leaders who participated in Omaha’s Justice Journey are now aiming to raise awareness within their congregations.”

On the Verge: an interview with David Gibbons

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“We had a vision of multi-ethnicity and ethnic reconciliation and reaching the next generation. The country was still reeling from the L.A. riots, and the need for a church like this was obvious. We were also influenced by the church growth principles that were so important in the 1990s. And our church experienced rapid growth.”

One Kingdom by Peter Park

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“As I begin to see how the multicultural worship movement is growing I pray that we don’t just try to bring people to our church. I hope that we’re not just trying to do the same thing we’ve been doing with Church in the past, where we’re just trying to build up our own congregation…multiculturally.”

One Lord, One Faith, Many Ethnicities

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Our Worship Response to Jesus Prayer for Unity By Stephen Michal Newby

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“Is it necessary to embrace the idea of multi-ethnic worship? Is there a greater sense of God’s presence in multi-ethnic gatherings? Is there a particular power that is present there too? The answer is No. The power is in the Word of God it forms and shapes our thinking and how we worship. Practicing various worship traditions, genres, styles, languages, preferences and fusing them together are formative to our character development in Christ. How we worship should never drive doctrine. Doctrine must drive how we worship. Sound doctrine is about God and the sounds of our worship should be too.”

Pivoting Toward the Faraway Neighbor

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“Historians will be able to look back and see that there was a Christian community that was largely disengaged from the struggle for justice in the world, but that over a generation it moved to engagement. It’s not a movement IJM has led or made happen so much as one we have been riding in the wake of what God is doing among his people. There is this wave of conviction that I believe his Spirit has generated. It has changed the picture of what mission means.”

Pondering the Primacy of Being Created in the Image of God by John Piper

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Post-Racial in the Segregated South by Terri J. Haynes

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“Kathryn Stockett’s novel of race, class, and friendship during the Jim Crow era has become a phenomenon on the best-seller lists, despite dealing with a potentially volatile subject matter. Here’s why everyone’s reading The Help.”

Principle 1: On Earth As It Is in Heaven

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“This, then, is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts,…

Principle 2: Just As You Are in Me and I Am in You

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“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.…

Principle 3: I Am Making Everything New!

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Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out…

Principle 4: Seek Justice, Encourage the Oppressed

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“When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood; wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil…

Principle 5: Had Everything In Common

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They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were…

Principle 6: By This All Men Will Know You Are My Disciples

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“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”  – Jesus Christ…

Principle 7: They Will Renew the Ruined Cities

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The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release…

Programmed by the Percentages by Chandra White-Cummings

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“Years and years of social programming have taught us to respond and give sway to skin color, hair texture, nose width, lip thickness, and other racial characteristics. But the Bible stands in stark contrast to our belief system. Nowhere in the Bible do we find a word that we translate as ‘race,’ unless we consider the words translated ‘humanity’ or ‘humankind.’

Pursuing Global Christian Music in Worship By Roberta R. King

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“Global Christian music is defined as any music found in the Christian Church worldwide. Particularly, it specializes in cultural musics from the non-Western world where songs are often sung in vernacular languages and performance practices remain fairly loyal to their surrounding music traditions. In the evangelical church in North America, for example, there is a growing trend for hymnals to include global songs and indigenous songs that arise out of the burgeoning churches in the Southern Hemisphere. These songs are from church communities who have recently discovered their musical voices. Likewise, musical instruments, such as the West African djembe (hand drum), have become standard components of many contemporary worship bands. Siyahamba, the popular 1990s choral anthem from South Africa, launched many choirs into searching for additional anthems from the burgeoning church in the southern hemisphere.”