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Tag Archives: Heterogenous Church
Caught between a rock and…
This extract from If you don’t know me by now reveals an incredible inconsistency in Sikh thought…the teaching of the brotherhood of humanity and yet the prohibition to marry outside the same caste, let alone the same race. Here’s more … Continue reading
Train a child in the way he should go…
I’m reading If you don’t know me by now, by Sathnam Sanghera, a memoir of love, secrets and lies in Wolverhampton (London, Penguin, 2008 ) Living as I do in the midst of the solid Punjabi Sikh community Sathnam grew … Continue reading
Enoch Powell 40 years on, not rivers of blood but ice
Racial segregation is troubling our government and there is a strong desire to do something about it, but what can the government do? I live in the multi-cultural constituency next door to the one where Enoch Powell was MP for … Continue reading
Homogeneous churches: a symptom of an absent cross
Much has been written about the UK suffering a lack of identity and about how multi-culturalism fuels sectarianism and segregation in society. Christians have long spoken about church being a place where people of all tongues, tribes and nations worship … Continue reading
Total Church – British classism and the grace of God
In an earlier post breaking out of middle class suburbia I wrote I believe homogeneous churches in a multicultural society deny, by their very existence, that salvation is by grace alone I had used the term “lower socio-economic group” to … Continue reading
Getting the direction of homogenous growth right.
One of the problems with homogenous church growth as practised in many churches is that mission is focused on invitational work. People are asked to come to the Sunday service or central church events. This strategy will result in a … Continue reading
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Tagged church growth movement, Donald McGavran, Eddie Gibbs, Grace, Heterogenous Church
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Challenging the homogenous church growth principle
You may never have heard of Donald McGavran but if you look at the churches you know you may see his theory of church growth at work. McGavran was a third generation missionary kid who was brought up in India … Continue reading
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Tagged church growth movement, Donald McGavran, Eddie Gibbs, Grace, Heterogenous Church
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Where to plant a church
A church in a middle class neighbourhood is planning a church plant. There are two options. To plant in another middle class area or in a hard inner city area. The two areas border each other. The church wants to … Continue reading
Posted in Inner City Ministry
Tagged Church plant, Heterogenous Church, Inner City Ministry
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