Building a Multiethnic Church, Derwin L. Gray
Building a Multiethnic Church, Derwin L. Gray
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Building a Multiethnic Church
A Gospel Vision of Grace, Love, and Reconciliation in a Divided World

Author: Derwin L. Gray, Matt Chandler

Narrator: Van Tracy

Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 04/06/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

America has become a beautiful mosaic filled with many colors and ethnicities—but does your church reflect this change? Are you longing to be a cross-cultural leader who can guide the church into a multicolored world for the sake of the gospel? If so, Building a Multiethnic Church will give you the tools to embrace an invigorated community of grace, love, and reconciliation.In Building a Multiethnic Church, bestselling author and pastor Dr. Derwin Gray calls all churches and their leaders to grow out of ignorance, classism, racism, and greed into a flourishing, vibrant, and grace-filled community of believers.Drawing on wisdom from the early church and the New Testament, Gray will help youunderstand that planting and transforming churches into multiethnic communities is a biblical calling; identify and implement the best practices to help build multiethnic churches; andrecognize that reconciliation between ethnic groups in the church is not just a social issue, but a theological issue that cannot be ignored.-- Previously published as The High-Definition Leader, now revised and updated--Study questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

About Derwin L. Gray

Dr. Derwin L. Gray is the cofounder along with his wife Vicki, and leader pastor of Transformation Church, a multiethnic, multigenerational, mission-shaped church in the Charlotte, NC, area. Dr. Gray has been married since 1992 and has two adult children. He played six seasons in the NFL. In 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Southern Evangelical Seminary. In 2018, he received his Doctor of Ministry in the New Testament in Context at Northern Seminary under Dr. Scot McKnight. He is the author of several books, including the national bestseller, The Good Life.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matt

Dr. Gray warns in the intro that this book will be repetitive, but I had no idea how true that would be. The concept is glorious - if our churches are not multiethnic, they do not reflect the heart of God. But I agreed with that statement the first time he said it, and of the nine chapters in the bo......more

Goodreads review by Bryan

This book has good insights and arguments for the need for churches to be multiethnic. Dr. Gray roots his argument in a theological framework out of Ephesians Chp 1-3 that makes a lot of sense. I also like how he challenges individualism and business lenses for the church. His emphasizes that the co......more

Goodreads review by Mary

There have been a swell of conversations within the American church over the last few years about what it looks like to be a multiethnic congregation, to have people from many nationalities and cultures worshipping together in one church family. There are other books that can 0ffer a historical surv......more

Goodreads review by Grant

This is an important book…it’s just unfortunate it feels unfinished and unedited in the final chapters. The book claims to tackle the issue of building a multiethnic church. On this front, it’s a bit lacking. You will not find steps or quick fixes. Which honestly, is okay. Because the issue of race......more

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