9Marks Journal on Multi-Ethnic Churches

The Summer/Fall 2015 issue of 9Marks Journal has a collection of articles and book reviews on the topic of "Multi-Ethnic Churches"—

Excerpt from the Editor's Note:

Consider this Journal 9Marks’ way of inviting you into that work of ethnic reconciliation. Don’t you want to see churches in South Africa, India, America, and everywhere not lagging behind their neighbors in this area, but pushing out ahead? What a witness that would be to the power and glory and goodness of the gospel! Most of the articles have been borne out of the American experience, but hopefully the lessons will translate into any national setting.

This issue's Table of Contents:

RACISM AND RACIAL RECONCILIATION

• How Do We Respond to Cultural Crises Over Race? by Brian Davis
• Racial Reconciliation, the Gospel, and the Church by Jarvis J. Williams
• Racism as Favoritism by Trillia Newbell
• Don’t Be Color-Blind at Church by Isaac Adams
• 5 Steps to Racial Peace-Making by Russ Whitfield
• Why the Race Conversation Is So Hard by Jonathan Leeman

MULTI-ETHNIC CHURCHES

• Re-Thinking Homogeneity: The Biblical Case for Multi-Ethnic Churches by Aubrey Sequeira
• Building a Multi-Cultural Ministry on Gospel Doctrine by John Folmar
• Pastor’s Forum: Can You Reverse-Engineer a Multi-Ethnic Church? by A. Davis, G. Gilbert, J. Onwuchekwa
• Lessons Learned from South Africa about Multi-Ethnicity in Churches by Gustav Pritchard
• Does the Asian-American Church Need an Adjusted Gospel? by Jeffrey K. Jue
• One Example of Reaching Your Multi-Ethnic Neighbors by Juan Sanchez

THE JOYS AND CHALLENGES OF MULTI-ETHNICITY

• The Joys and Challenges of a Multi-Ethnic Church by John Smuts
• Why White Churches Are Hard for Black People by Isaac Adams
• Being Asian American in a White Church by Tim Chiang
• Helping Asian Churches Become Multi-Ethnic by Patrick Cho

BOOK REVIEWS

• Right Color, Wrong Culture, by Bryan Loritts - Review by Sam Lam
• Reviving the Black Church, by Thabiti Anyabwile - Review by Jemar Tisby
• United by Faith, by Curtiss Paul DeYoung, et al - Review by Russ Whitfield
• Bloodlines, by John Piper - Review by H. B. Charles