Dynamic Diversity: Bridging Class, Age, Race and Gender in the Church

Name: Dynamic Diversity: Bridging Class, Age, Race and Gender in the Church
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by Bruce Milne

Paperback|Nov 2007

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From the footpaths of our cities to the chatrooms of the Internet, people are connecting today as never before. As the planet shrinks through the multiple forces of immigration, travel, electronic communication and more fluid employment patterns, we will...

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From the footpaths of our cities to the chatrooms of the Internet, people are connecting today as never before. As the planet shrinks through the multiple forces of immigration, travel, electronic communication and more fluid employment patterns, we will find ourselves increasingly forced into contact with those who are significantly different from ourselves. Sadly however, the stranger is often a threat to be resisted rather than a friend to be embraced.In this context of in-your-face diversity, it is time to revisit the heart of the New Testament, with its claim that in Jesus Christ a new quality of human relationship is possible. In his letter to the Ephesians, the apostle Paul claims that Christians are a new kind of people, part of a new community: a 'new humanity' in Christ (Ephesians 2:15). We exist not in isolation, but in relationship.Dynamic Diversitycontends that all Christian congregations everywhere are called to be bridging places, centres of reconciliation, where the major diversities separating human beings are overcome through the presence of God's Holy Spirit.Bruce Milne presents a biblical model for today and tomorrow where the diversities of gender, generation, ethnicity, color and socio-economic status present exciting and challenging opportunities to demonstrate practical oneness. When this happens, churches become wonderfully alive. In Christ we can be one people, one new humanity, one life.

PRODUCT DETAIL

Catalogue Code 263632
Product Code 0830828060
ISBN 0830828060
EAN 9780830828067
Pages 190
Department Academic
Category Church
Sub-Category Church Life/issues
Publisher Intervarsity Press Usa
Publication Date Nov 2007
Dimensions 228 x 152 x 15mm
Weight 0.292kg

Bruce Milne

Bruce Milne (Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) was Pastor of First Baptist Church in Vancouver, Canada for many years. Today he travels the globe, preaching, teaching and encouraging pastoral leaders as Vice-President of the Baptist World Alliance. He has authored Know the Truth; Dynamic Diversity; The Message of Heaven & Hell ( Bible Speaks Today Themes) and The Gospel of John (Bible Speaks Today Series.)

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