Smith The Post-Black and Post-White Church

Becoming the Beloved Community in a Multi-Ethnic World
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-23606-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: J-B Leadership Network Series

A blueprint for missional, multi-ethnic Christian community
Efrem Smith, an internationally recognized and innovativeAfrican-American leader, offers a workable plan for connectingtheology, practical ministry models, and real stories of people inmulti-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 bookprovides a rich mix of multi-ethnic church development,reconciliation theology, missional church thinking, and Christiancommunity.
* Provides a common-sense approach to creating a multi-ethnicChristian community
* Includes practical ministry models and real stories of peoplewho are members of thriving multi-ethnic congregations
* Author is acclaimed African-American thought leader who plantedand led a multi-ethnic churches of close to 1,000 and now leads aregional division of a denominational committed to ethnic,multi-ethnic, and missional churches
This book is written for anyone wrestling with what it means tobe a Christian in an increasingly multi-ethnic world polarized byclass, politics, and race.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Efrem

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Efrem Smithis an internationally recognized African-Americanleader and highly charismatic speaker. He is the former pastor ofthe Sanctuary Covenant Church and board chair of the SanctuaryCommunity Development Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He isnow superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference of theEvangelical Covenant Church (ECC) denomination, located in Concord,California, and the author of Raising Young Heroes andThe Hip-Hop Church.
Leadership Network, a division of OneHundredX, seeks toaccelerate the impact of 100X leaders. Since 1996, LeadershipNetwork Publications has presented thoroughly researched andpractical concepts from leading thinkers, practitioners, andpioneering churches. www.leadnet.org