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Feb 22, 2024 · Church leaders and members need to actively engage with diverse cultures, breaking barriers to create a community reflecting God’s love and unity. Language barriers pose challenges for diverse communities, but with patience and respect, they can be overcome.
Building an Inclusive Church (BIC) training helps you design and implement a journey for your faith community to publicly and intentionally welcome people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions, and incorporate a commitment to the work of racial equity.
- Drop the Labels. For the longest time, our rhetoric in the evangelical church in America has been about “white” churches, and “black” churches, and “Hispanic” churches, and “Asian” churches.
- Don’t Be Sensitive. We know the stereotypes—those common idiosyncrasies attached to certain ethnicities. We live in a day where so many people get offended when you address stereotypes.
- Choose Relationships Over Comfort. This is tough, because we all grew up in a certain ethnic context. Growing up, you most likely spent the majority of your time around people of your same ethnicity.
- Intentionally Place Leadership. This is what we did at our church. When we decided to start a new campus I knew that we needed to diversify our staff and specifically with the campus pastor.
Sep 26, 2023 · How can church leaders build an inclusive community of faith? Jessica Anschutz of the Lewis Center staff interviews Brandan Robertson, the “TikTok Pastor,” about social media ministry, intersectional inclusivity, and the challenges of building inclusive community.
Jul 6, 2016 · Rather, our churches must become inclusive communities of faith, encouraging and embracing oneness in Christ across race and class distinctions. In transitioning a church to living color, the following five areas must be considered.
Jan 17, 2024 · I’ve heard it said that if you want to find out who the “problem people” are in your church, enter into a building program. Simply keeping the congregation informed throughout the process can solve a lot of problems in this regard.
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May 11, 2021 · 5 ways to build a truly diverse church. UK churches are still largely segregated according to race and language, says interpretation expert Jonathan Downie. Here’s some lessons we all need to learn if we want to change that. Despite the growing multiculturalism – and by default, therefore - multilingualism of our country, missions experts ...