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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.
Tabela de Conteúdo
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
Sobre o autor
Timothy Paul Jones (Ed.D., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Rolling Hills, Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the author of Christian History Made Easy and (with James Garlow and April Williams) The Da Vinci Codebreaker.
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