Building a Multiethnic Church: A Gospel Vision of Grace, Love, and Reconciliation in a Divided World

Publisher Description

:The United States is known as the "Great Melting Pot," yet the church pews on a Sunday mornings reveal a different story. While many facets of American culture have grown increasingly diverse, the old wounds of racism remain--especially in the modern church. In Building a Multiethnic Church, Dr. Derwin L. Gray invites ministry leaders and congregations to embrace Christ's call to the early church to cross ethnic and socioeconomic barriers and create a future filled with love, grace, and reconciliation. Drawing on wisdom from the early church and the New Testament, Gray helps readers

• understand that planting and transforming churches into multiethnic communities is a biblical calling;
• identify and implement the best practices to help build multiethnic churches; and
• recognize that reconciliation between ethnic groups in the church is not just a social issue, but a theological issue that cannot be ignored.

Building a Multiethnic Church offers a gospel vision of how a flourishing and grace-filled community of believers united in their devotion to Jesus and his kingdom can transform the world.

--Previously published as The High-Definition Leader, now revised and updated.--