Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church: Mandate, Commitments, and Practices of a Diverse Congregation

ISBN-13: 9780787995515 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 240 str.

Mark Deymaz

Opis

Through personal stories, proven experience and a thorough analysis of the biblical text, Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church illustrates both the biblical mandate for the multi-ethnic church as well as the seven core commitments required to bring it about. Mark DeYmaz, pastor of one of the most proven multi-ethnic churches in the country, writes both from his experience and his extensive study of how to plant, grow, and encourage more ethnically diverse churches. He argues that the -homogenous unit principle- will soon become irrelevant and that the most effective way to spread the Gospel in an increasingly diverse world is through strong and vital multi-ethnic churches.

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About Leadership Network.

Foreword by George Yancey.

Preface by Mark Pryor.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

PART 1: THE BIBLICAL MANDATE.

1. The Prayer of Christ.

2. The Pattern at Antioch.

3. The Pauline Mystery.

PART 2: THE SEVEN CORE COMMITMENTS OF A MULTI–ETHNIC CHURCH.

4. Embrace Dependence.

5. Take Intentional Steps.

6. Empower Diverse Leadership.

7. Develop Cross–Cultural Relationships.

8. Pursue Cross–Cultural Competence.

9. Promote a Spirit of Inclusion.

10. Mobilize for Impact.

PART 3: ON PLANTING, REVITALIZING, AND TRANSFORMING.

11. For Those Planting a Multi–Ethnic Church.

12. For Those Revitalizing a Declining Church, by Rodney Woo.

13. For Those Transforming a Homogeneous Church, by Kim Greenwood.

Conclusion: All That We Should Be.

Notes.

About the Author.

Index.

O autorze

Mark DeYmaz is pastor of the Mosaic Church of Central Arkansas, a multi–ethnic and economically diverse church where men and women from more than thirty nations currently worship God together as one. Formerly he served on Little Rock s Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission and he is a cofounder of the Mosaix Global Network, an organization dedicated to enlisting and equipping leaders intent on the development of multi–ethnic churches throughout America and beyond.