Multicultural Church by Rev. Ken Davis, Director of Project Jerusalem. Baptist Bible College, Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.
I have been having some conversations (not be confused with the emerging church style of conversations) with some friends on another blog. We have been talking about culture and multicultural churches. Let me know your thoughts about what Ken Davis has to say in this article.
Friday, April 6, 2007
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"To keep the heritage of each ethnic group alive...national costumes...would be encouraged and celebrated whenever possible."
This seems silly.
If you happen to have some non-english speaking folks in your town, it would be good for someone who is bilingual in their language to go and talk to them. It would be up to a sort-of missionary to minister to them. That is kind of like the satellite church idea. Or like that church in Chicago - remember that?
But this is only common sense. Our home church may not be as "visionary" as one would like, but at least they have a Mexican witnessing to other Mexicans. And they did this without "actively recruiting" people of other ethnicities. How about we just share the gospel with everyone we can? Seems reasonable enough to me.
I really think there is still little understanding of what culture is and does and what we can do with it.
If we understood the nature of Popular Culture, we would see that the many "cultures" here in america are really not so different...or at least, are becoming less different every day. It is Popular Culture that is the enemy of diversity, not Western Civilization.
And here is the other thing. Do I think that Western Civ. has produced better things than far east asian civilizations? Yes. Why? Because they had a better religion, and culture is the incarnation of one's religion.
We can't have our religion (be it Christian or bhuddist) and just decide out culture we're going to have.
I don't know. It seems all this jargon about multicultural churches is creating complications where there shouldn't be any and missing the complications we ought to be contemplating.
I'm not too terribly impressed with the article. It sounds too much like the "White Privilege" conference at Central College.
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