The Challenge of Jesus’s Great Commission To Ethnic Churches
The following academic journal article can be found at the following website:“The Challenge of Jesus' Great Commission to Ethnic Churches.” Directions, 37, no. 2, Fall 2008, 238-242.
http://www.directionjournal.org/37/2/challenge-of-jesuss-great-commission.html
So how do you bring a people so invested in their cultural identity to begin to invest in cross-cultural/intercultural outreach? We need to do a better job of teaching our people that God loves the world—not just our own ethnicity, but every nation. Let’s be certain our mission is biblically based, grounded in the Great Commission.... One significant way an ethnic bi-cultural church can encourage the application of Jesus’s Great Commission is to release, resource, and affirm its English (or other) language congregations to do mission in ways that are authentic for them. The cultural and multi-ethnic networks of those in an English language congregation of an ethnic church tend to straddle two cultures. This should be acknowledged, addressed, nurtured, and commissioned.... Scripture tells us that heaven will be multi-racial and multi-cultural. We should conceive of ethnic churches as the beginning, not the end, of God’s vision for his church. If Christ commanded his own Jewish ethnic followers to make disciples of all nations, no Christian individual or church is exempt from the Great Commission today. So who is going to do this? It’s supposed to be us!....(to read more see the above website.)
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