Embracing the new Samaria : opening our eyes to our multiethnic future /
Mandes, Alejandro,
Embracing the new Samaria : opening our eyes to our multiethnic future / Alejandro Mandes with Deborah Sáenz Gonzalez. - xiii, 210 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographic references.
part I. Seeing the new Samaria: Recalibrating our vision ; The demographic tipping point ; Justice revival -- part II. Love the new Samaria: Extending our vision of God's kingdom ; Appreciating the beauty of other cultures ; Entering into the pain of the marginalized -- part III. Reach the new Samaria: Strategy transformation ; Making disciples ; Equipping leaders -- part IV. Be the new Samaria: One reconciled community ; Multiethnic ministry and transforming communities ; Pass the church forward.
"'Look around and you'll see the fields are ripe for harvest.' Jesus said this in Samaria, a community on the margins of society. In Embracing the new Samaria, Alejandro Mandes points us to the mission field in our midst, left untended when the church fails to reach out to ethnic-minority and marginalized communities. When we commit ourselves to the Great Commission (to make disciples) and the Great Commandment (to love our neighbor), we move toward a Great Community in which God is glorified and all people flourish" -- back cover.
9781641584340 1641584343
GBC1D6114 bnb
020298833 Uk
Church and minorities--United States.
Cultural pluralism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Evangelicalism--United States.
United States--Religion--21st century.
Embracing the new Samaria : opening our eyes to our multiethnic future / Alejandro Mandes with Deborah Sáenz Gonzalez. - xiii, 210 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographic references.
part I. Seeing the new Samaria: Recalibrating our vision ; The demographic tipping point ; Justice revival -- part II. Love the new Samaria: Extending our vision of God's kingdom ; Appreciating the beauty of other cultures ; Entering into the pain of the marginalized -- part III. Reach the new Samaria: Strategy transformation ; Making disciples ; Equipping leaders -- part IV. Be the new Samaria: One reconciled community ; Multiethnic ministry and transforming communities ; Pass the church forward.
"'Look around and you'll see the fields are ripe for harvest.' Jesus said this in Samaria, a community on the margins of society. In Embracing the new Samaria, Alejandro Mandes points us to the mission field in our midst, left untended when the church fails to reach out to ethnic-minority and marginalized communities. When we commit ourselves to the Great Commission (to make disciples) and the Great Commandment (to love our neighbor), we move toward a Great Community in which God is glorified and all people flourish" -- back cover.
9781641584340 1641584343
GBC1D6114 bnb
020298833 Uk
Church and minorities--United States.
Cultural pluralism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Evangelicalism--United States.
United States--Religion--21st century.