Dynamic Diversity: The New Humanity Church for Today and Tomorrow (Biblia.com)

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From the footpaths of our cities to the chat rooms 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...

If the members of the congregation all wear suits, and then the pastor in the pulpit asks people to come to Christ, there is a real danger that the sub-text is—‘You can come to Christ, but you must all dress like us.’ I saw churches in India with full parking lots and walls around them. The pastor is preaching, ‘Come to Jesus,’ but the behavior system of the church is saying, ‘We are not of this community. You can come to Christ if you are of our social class.’13 The diversity of the new-humanity

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