The Post-Black and Post-White Church
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The Post-Black and Post-White Church

Becoming the Beloved Community in a Multi-Ethnic World

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eBook - ePub

The Post-Black and Post-White Church

Becoming the Beloved Community in a Multi-Ethnic World

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781118036587
eBook ISBN
9781118236062

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Leadership Network Titles
  6. Dedication
  7. About the Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series
  8. Foreword
  9. Introduction: Enter the Sanctuary
  10. Chapter 1: Reconciling, Multi-Ethnic, and Missional
  11. Chapter 2: Moving the Church Beyond Crisis, Captivity, and Comfort
  12. Chapter 3: Compassion, Mercy, and Justice
  13. Chapter 4: Race
  14. Chapter 5: The Gift of the Black Church
  15. Chapter 6: Creating a Post-White Church
  16. Chapter 7: Leadership
  17. Chapter 8: The Beloved Life and Leadership Project
  18. Chapter 9: Starting, Shifting, and Sustaining
  19. About the Author
  20. Index
  21. End User License Agreement