The Post-Black and Post-White Church - Efrem Smith

The Post-Black and Post-White Church

Becoming the Beloved Community in a Multi-Ethnic World

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Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2013
Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-118-03658-7 (ISBN)
22,90 inkl. MwSt
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.
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.

EFREM SMITH is an internationally recognized African-American leader and highly charismatic speaker. He is the former pastor of the Sanctuary Covenant Church and board chair of the Sanctuary Community Development Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is now superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) denomination, located in Concord, California, and the author of Raising Young Heroes and The Hip-Hop Church.

About the Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series vii

Foreword by Curtiss Paul DeYoung ix

Introduction: Enter the Sanctuary xiii

1 Reconciling, Multi-Ethnic, and Missional 1

2 Moving the Church Beyond Crisis, Captivity, and Comfort 15

3 Compassion, Mercy, and Justice 41

4 Race 65

5 The Gift of the Black Church 93

6 Creating a Post-White Church 117

7 Leadership 145

8 The Beloved Life and Leadership Project 161

9 Starting, Shifting, and Sustaining 185

Notes 201

About the Author 207

Index 209

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.4.2013
Reihe/Serie Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 236 mm
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Pastoraltheologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-118-03658-1 / 1118036581
ISBN-13 978-1-118-03658-7 / 9781118036587
Zustand Neuware
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