church resources for reaching all peoples
From the 2017 PRRI study, “America’s Changing Religious Identity,” by Daniel Cox and Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.—excerpts below: The National Decline in White Christian Identity Demographically, the U.S. historically has been an overwhelmingly white Christian country, with white Protestants alone constituting a clear cultural majority. In 1976, roughly eight in ten (81%) Americans identified as …
America is becoming increasingly more representative of this vision as it becomes more ethnically diverse (see Table 1). So, how is this multiracial reality shaping the planting of new churches? The good news is church plants are not only keeping pace with the changing demographics, but many are leading the way by launching intentionally multiracial …
Rethinking Multiethnic Churches: A discussion on the fruits and challenges of multiethnic congregations. Many evangelical churches have grown in diversity, but are they places of true unity and equity? In the March issue of CT, sociologist Korie Little Edwards explains why the multiethnic church movement hasn’t lived up to its promises–and how it still could. …
March 2021 Christianity Today cover story by Korie Little Edwards, professor of sociology at The Ohio State University. The Multiethnic Church Movement Hasn’t Lived up to Its Promise: Multiracial churches have not been good news for everyone. What can we do about it? Pastor Richard Johnson struck me as an affable person as he excitedly …
Excerpt from Lifeway Research article, “Megachurches Continue to (Mostly) Grow and Not Just in Size,” by Aaron Earls (2020)— In addition to larger congregations spread across more campuses, megachurches are also growing more ethnically diverse. In 2000, only 21% of megachurches reported having 20% or more minority presence in their congregation. Today, more than half …
[excerpted from the Mosaix Global Network newsletter – December 2019] At the 2019 Mosaix multiethnic church conference, long-awaited new statistics concerning the progress of the Multiethnic Church Movement were shared by sociologist, Dr. Michael O. Emerson.1 In his plenary talk, Dr. Emerson, one of the nation’s leading scholars on race relations and religion, explained: “Using …
Get all these videos from the #mosaix19 conference videos to kickstart your community leader’s discussions around the topics related to multiethnic diversity. You can purchase the Mosaix19 Digital Access Pass from LifeWay for $99 featuring all 6 conference plenary sessions as well as the 4 main stage panel discussion workshops. These videos include: “The Coming Revolution in …
Check out these insights from “What Multicultural Congregations Teach About Improving Race Relations,” a resource from Baylor University’s online master’s in social work program. Here’s an excerpt— A movement is growing among Christian churches to become places of racial reconciliation and friendship between people of different racial and ethnic identities. But beyond awkwardness, racism and prejudice continue …
2018 Predictions from Mark DeYmaz of Mosaix Global Network about the multiethnic church movement—from the Mosaix Global Network newsletter: Will this be the year when the 20% threshold be crossed? At the turn of the century (2000), just 7.5% of churches throughout the United States had at least 20% diversity in their attending membership. Six …
How can evangelical Christians of different ethnicities have a meaningful discourse about faith and race? What might change with rap artist Lecrae “loosening his ties with white evangelicalism”? Here’s the series of articles as it went down, chronologically. Pastor John Piper, “My Hopeful Response to Lecrae Pulling Away from ‘White Evangelicalism’: Lecrae’s decision has roots. …