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Technicolor: Inspiring Your Church to Embrace Multicultural Ministry
By the year 2050, the United States will no longer have a majority ethnic group. The nation's population will be majority-minority. This future nationwide reality has already been a present reality in several cities, including many in the urban south, for nearly a decade. In a 2011 State of the City Address, the mayor of pastor and author Mark Hearn's city said there were fifty-seven languages spoken at the local high school.
Hearn left asking himself, How should our church respond? In the years that have followed, a phenomenal transformation has taken place. This transition has been chronicled in the Gwinnet Daily Post, the Christian Index, the Wall Street Journal, Lifeway's Facts and Trends, and the Atlanta Magazine. Now, Hearn shares the life-changing story through his own lens. By reading his firsthand experience of this transition as a pastor, you too can be equipped to make the shift to church in technicolor.
Hearn left asking himself, How should our church respond? In the years that have followed, a phenomenal transformation has taken place. This transition has been chronicled in the Gwinnet Daily Post, the Christian Index, the Wall Street Journal, Lifeway's Facts and Trends, and the Atlanta Magazine. Now, Hearn shares the life-changing story through his own lens. By reading his firsthand experience of this transition as a pastor, you too can be equipped to make the shift to church in technicolor.
161 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 1, 2017
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July 8, 2017
It's hard for me to explain why I only gave this book three stars.
On the one hand, this is a book that is straight up my alley. I was a cross-cultural major in college with an emphasis in TESOL. Multicultural ministry was the bread and butter of my undergrad career, and I love it. Learning about other cultures and speaking with those of different cultural backgrounds is one of my favorite things in the world. Going through this book highlighted these ideas that I love.
On the other hand, I can't help but feel that there was a sense of disconnection between points throughout the book. There were many stories that were fairly irrelevant to the topic, and I don't feel that presenting only the positive aspects for the majority of the book was helpful in getting people to understand the importance of cross-cultural ministry. Thankfully, he did touch upon the pushback and criticism he received later on, but that wasn't until nearly two-thirds of the book was complete. Having been in cross-cultural ministry, I know from myself and others that I've talked to that the honeymoon period is quite short and there perhaps should have been more of an emphasis on that.
Having said that, though, I feel I would have enjoyed this book more during my undergrad. It would have been a nice supplement to what I was learning at the time. I can recommend it to others, though I would definitely make sure that other readers understood that it is only a slight skim over the deep waters of cross-cultural, multiethnic ministry.
On the one hand, this is a book that is straight up my alley. I was a cross-cultural major in college with an emphasis in TESOL. Multicultural ministry was the bread and butter of my undergrad career, and I love it. Learning about other cultures and speaking with those of different cultural backgrounds is one of my favorite things in the world. Going through this book highlighted these ideas that I love.
On the other hand, I can't help but feel that there was a sense of disconnection between points throughout the book. There were many stories that were fairly irrelevant to the topic, and I don't feel that presenting only the positive aspects for the majority of the book was helpful in getting people to understand the importance of cross-cultural ministry. Thankfully, he did touch upon the pushback and criticism he received later on, but that wasn't until nearly two-thirds of the book was complete. Having been in cross-cultural ministry, I know from myself and others that I've talked to that the honeymoon period is quite short and there perhaps should have been more of an emphasis on that.
Having said that, though, I feel I would have enjoyed this book more during my undergrad. It would have been a nice supplement to what I was learning at the time. I can recommend it to others, though I would definitely make sure that other readers understood that it is only a slight skim over the deep waters of cross-cultural, multiethnic ministry.
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