The post-black and post-white church : becoming the beloved community in a multi-ethnic world / Efrem Smith
Imprint
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2012
Descript
xx, 220 p. ; 24 cm
SUMMARY
"A blueprint for missional, multi-ethnic Christian community Efrem Smith, an internationally recognized and innovative African-American leader, offers a workable plan for connecting theology, practical ministry models, and real stories of people in multi-ethnic Christian communities. Using the example of Jesus, Smith develops a theology of multi-ethnic and missional leadership. Embracing urban and ethnic subcultures such as hip-hop, this book provides a rich mix of multi-ethnic church development, reconciliation theology, missional church thinking, and Christian community. Provides a common-sense approach to creating a multi-ethnic Christian community Includes practical ministry models and real stories of people who are members of thriving multi-ethnic congregations Author is acclaimed African-American thought leader who planted and led a multi-ethnic churches of close to 1,000 and now leads a regional division of a denominational committed to ethnic, multi-ethnic, and missional churches This book is written for anyone wrestling with what it means to be a Christian in an increasingly multi-ethnic world polarized by class, politics, and race"-- Provided by publisher
CONTENT
Reconciling, multi-ethnic, and missional -- Moving the church beyond crisis, captivity, and comfort -- Compassion, mercy and justice -- Race -- The gift of the black church -- Creating a post-white church -- Leadership -- The beloved life and leadership project -- Starting, shifting, and sustaining
SUBJECT
Church and minorities
Social integration -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Reconciliation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Multiculturalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
