In Church as It Is in Heaven – Cultivating a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture

Jamaal E. Williams, Timothy Paul Jones, Mark DeYmaz (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2023
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-1-5140-0538-5 (ISBN)

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Heaven is multiethnic, "a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language." But in this diverse community shouldn't have to wait until eternity to begin! It can be a reality now. Here, the authors give biblical warrant for such a community and show how multiethnic churches provide a unique apologetic for the gospel.

Heaven is multiethnic. Are you ready for that?
The Bible tells us that the congregation gathered around God's heavenly throne will be "a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language," all singing the praises of the Lamb. God's intention has always been to delight for all eternity in a redeemed community of ethnic diversity.
But this diverse community shouldn't have to wait until eternity to begin! It can be a reality in our own local churches here and now. Patterned after a worship service, In Church as It Is in Heaven gives biblical warrant for such a community and shows how multiethnic churches provide a unique apologetic for the gospel. Along the way, the authors tell the story of their own church—a majority-white congregation which is being transformed into a family that reflects the diversity of heaven.
The multiethnic kingdom is not just a nice idea, or an abstract theory. It's a reality—one we can enter into today.

Jamaal E. Williams (DEdMin) serves as lead pastor of Sojourn Church Midtown in Louisville, Kentucky, and as president of the Harbor Network. In addition, he regularly consults churches on leadership matters and issues related to building healthy multi-ethnic churches. Timothy Paul Jones (PhD) teaches apologetics at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and serves as a preaching pastor at Sojourn Church Midtown. In addition, he has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books, including Finding God in a Galaxy Far, Far Away; Christian History Made Easy; and, with James Garlow and April Williams, the bestselling The Da Vinci Codebreaker.

Introduction: Broken City, Broken World

Part 1. Call to Worship: Learning to Love Multiethnic Kingdom Culture

1. The Evidence That Our World Has Yet to See

2. The Gap in Our Love

3. Liturgies of Love and Longing

Part 2. Lament: Grieving What Stands in the Way of Multiethnic Kingdom Culture

4. Lamenting the Wound

5. The Lies That Blind Us to the Ties That Bind Us

6. Liturgies of Lament

Part 3. Offering: Giving for the Sake of Multiethnic Kingdom Culture

7. Seeing Both Sides of the Ball

8. How God Made a Holy Mess and Turned It into a Heavenly Movement

9. Liturgies of Giving

Part 4. Passing the Peace: Welcoming One Another in a Multiethnic Kingdom Culture

10. Going to War by Passing the Peace

11. White Is Not a Neutral Color

12. Liturgies of Hospitality

Part 5. Communion: Feasting Together on the Victory Jesus Won

13. Knowing Your Place

14. Building Up Walls That Jesus Already Broke Down

15. Liturgies of Communion

Benediction: A Blessing for the Road

Afterword by Jarvis J. Williams

Acknowledgments

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2023
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	5 x 8 mm
Gewicht	2400 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
ISBN-10	1-5140-0538-7 / 1514005387
ISBN-13	978-1-5140-0538-5 / 9781514005385
Zustand	Neuware