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The Post-Black and Post-White Church

Becoming the Beloved Community in a Multi-Ethnic World

Efrem Smith author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc

Published:16th Apr '13

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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.

ISBN: 9781118036587

Dimensions: 236mm x 160mm x 21mm

Weight: 431g

240 pages