1. Biblical Perspectives
2. Hot Issue: Multi-Ethnic Congregations/Church Communities OR HUP (Homogeneous Unit Principle) Churches?
3. General
4. Videos
5. Websites
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1. Biblical Perspectives
The Bible as Authority as an Antidote to Cultural Imperialism
The Contextualised Witness of the Apostles (Lausanne Movement)
The Doctrine of Creation and Multicultural Ministry Series
Galatians 2:11-21: A Blast fron the Past (sermon)
The House Church: A Missiological Model (Del Birkey)
Insider Movements in the Gospels and Acts (International Journal of Frontier Missiology)
The Old Testament Contextualisations (Lausanne Movement)
The Role of the Bible in Shaping Multicultural Ministry: 1. Continuity Amid Uncertainties
The Role of the Bible in Shaping Multicultural Ministry: 2. The Gospel for All Peoples, All Cultures
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2. Hot Issue: Multi-Ethnic Congregations/Church Communities AND/OR HUP (Homogeneous Unit Principle) Churches?
(In addition to articles from Face to Face Intercultural I have included articles from other sites. I do not necessarily agree with viewpoints expressed in some of these articles, but feel they have a contribution to make to the debate)
Affinity Blocs and People Clusters. An Approach Toward Strategic Insight and Mission Partnership (Mission Frontiers)
Do People Groups Still Matter? A Review in 2010 (Mission Frontiers)
Further Responses to Paul Hiebert (Mission Frontiers)
Homogeneous Unit Principle (Lausanne Movement: LOP 1: The Pasadena Consultation.
The Homogeneous Unit Principle (Tim Chester)
The Homogeneous Unit Principle and Racial Segregation in Baptist Churches (sbcImpact)
Is it reasonable to assert that evangelists who adopt the homogeneous unit principle are racist? (Robin Kinstead)
Is There a Biblical Basis for Encouraging Diversity? (Unity in Christ magazine)
Jesus and Ethnicity (Tim Geddert)
Multi-Ethnicity, the Moon and the Local Church (Unity in Christ magazine)
People, Nations, Tongues, Kingdoms and Homogeneity (GlobeServe Journal of Missions)
Should Pastors Accept or Reject the HUP? (GLUE)
Ten Implicit Biblical Mandates for a Multi-Ethnic Ministry (Unity in Christ magazine)
Unity and Diversity in the Family of God (eDiaspora Network)
What’s Wrong With Being Ethnic? (John Reeves)
Why a Chinese Church? Why Not? (Reflections: Ying Yee)
Why a Chinese Church? Why Not? Take Two (Reflections: Ying Yee)
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3. General:
5 Insights about Asian American Acculturation (L2 Foundation)
7 Suggestions for English Ministry in Ethnic Churches (L2 Foundation)
25 FAQs re the Multi-ethnic Church (GLUE)
Are Racially Diverse Churches Integrated? (Unity in Christ magazine)
Assimilation vs. Accommodation (GLUE)
Bridgeway Community Church – A Church Plant Model for Multicultural Ministry (Unity in Christ magazine)
Cargo Cult and Cargo Worshipers
Case Studies for Cross-Cultural Ministry
Challenges Facing Immigrant Pastors & Congregations Meeting In English Speaking Churches (Unity in Christ magazine)
Christian Witness to Refugees (Lausanne Movement. LOP 5)
Church as Family – and the Chinese Idea of Family (Andrew Hong)
Communicating God’s Message in an Oral Culture (International Journal of Frontier Missiology)
Communicating the Gospel Across Cultures
Confucianism and the Application of the Law (Andrew Hong)
Confucianism – and the Pastor’s Stipend (Andrew Hong)
Confucianism – and the Rectification of Names (Andrew Hong)
Confucianism – and the Rectification of Names. Part 2 (Andrew Hong)
Confucianism – and What Leaders are Meant to Do (Andrew Hong)
Consultation on Gospel and Culture (Lausanne Movement. LOP 2: The Willowbank Report)
Contesting Ethnicity, Religion and Globalization (International Journal of Frontier Mission)
Contextualisation: Meaning, Methods and Models by D. Hesselgrave & E. Rommen (GlobeServe Journal of Missions)
Contextualisation Theory in Euro-American Missiology (Lausanne Movement)
Contextualization Without Syncretism (International Journal of Frontier Missiology)
Cross-Cultural Evangelism (Lausanne Movement)
Cultural and Moral Limits to Rationality
David Livermore / Cultural Intelligence. Improving Your CQ to Engage Our Multicultural World
Develop Cultural Intelligence in Your Organisation
Developing Cultural Intelligence (CQ): A Summary of David Livermore’s Approach
Diasporas and International Students: The New People Next Door (Lausanne Movement. LOP 55)
Domineering Women (and Weak Men) in Chinese Homes (Andrew Hong)
Duane Elmer / Cross-Cultural Conflict
Duane Elmer / Cross-Cultural Connections
The Dynamics of Majority Culture and Minority Culture (Andrew Hong)
ESL RESOURCES (Free, Accessible and Ready to Use)
Ethnicity and Race in Contextualisation (Lausanne Movement)
Evaluating an Existing Cross-Cultural Ministry
Face in Chinese Culture: What You Can Do About It (Andrew Hong)
Forgiveness – and its Absence in Chinese Culture! (Andrew Hong)
Foundations for Morality in Chinese Culture and the Bible
George Yancey / One Body, One Spirit
Gospel Contextualisation Revisited (Lausanne Movement)
“Gus the Greek Fallacy”: Word Use Versus Word Roots
Historical Perspectives on Christians in Culture Series
How Chinese Engage in Conflict (Andrew Hong)
How to Make Oral Communication More Effective (International Journal of Frontier Missiology)
How To Prepare To Launch An Immigrant Ministry Through an Established Congregation (Unity in Christ magazine)
Identity, History, and Passivity: Julius Kim and Stephen Um Discuss Challenges for Asian Americans (The Gospel Coalition)
Indigenous Expressions of Biblical Faith (International Journal of Frontier Missiology)
Individualism, Collectivism and Mental and Spiritual Health
Is God Colorblind or Colorful? (Mission Frontiers)
Issues in Contextualisation (Lausanne Movement)
Lessons from History: Rationalisations for Dehumanising People
Loyalty – Where it Comes From [Loyalty in Chinese Culture] (Andrew Hong)
Making Two Into One: Creating Multiracial Churches from Single-Race Congregations (Unity in Christ magazine)
A Measure of Assimilation (Next Gener.Asian Church)
Methods of Communication and Contextualisation (Lausanne Movement)
Missions and EthnoWorship (GlobeServe Journal of Missions)
Montaigne on Ethnocentrism in the 16th Century
Motivation for Ministry Misunderstood
Moving Obstacles to Multicultural Ministry
Multiculturalism and Ethnic Introversion: Towers of Babel in Australia?
Multicultural Ministry / Anderson
Multicultural Sydney – Demographic Snippets
Multi-what? (GLUE)
My Seminar on Cross-Cultural Ministry was a Flop!
A Panoramic View of Contextualisation (GlobeServe Journal of Missions)
Perspectives on Western Culture
Pietism in the Chinese Church – Anthropology and Revelation (Andrew Hong)
Pietism in the Chinese Church – the Dangers of Pietism (Andrew Hong)
Pietism in the Chinese Church – Dying and Being Broken (Andrew Hong)
Pietism in the Chinese Church – and Eastern Asceticism (Andrew Hong)
Pietism in the Chinese Church – How to Respond! (Andrew Hong)
Pietism in the Chinese Church – Not Like the West! (Andrew Hong)
Pietism in the Chinese Church – Things to Look For (Andrew Hong)
The Plausibility of Multicultural Churches
Practical Tips for Ministry Across Cultures
Preaching in a Multicultural World (Preaching)
The Pre-History of the Culture Concept
Premillenialism in the Chinese Church (Andrew Hong)
The Problem of the “Relational Yes”
Protestant Church Websites in Sydney (includes “Ethnic”/NESB (non-English speaking background) churches)
Racism: Early Australian Expressions 1
Reciprocity in Cross-Cultural Relationships
RESOURCES FOR STUDYING RELIGION
A Review of the Role of Worldview in Missions and Multiethnic Ministry (GlobeServe Journal of Missions)
The Second Generation Leadership Diaspora (Reforming Church, Culture and our City: Eugene Hor)
Serving in a Chinese Church – A Forgotten Key (Reflections: Ying Yee)
Seven Fatal Errors in Multi-cultural Ministry: #5 Finances (Healthy Diversity)
The Shape of Chinese Ministry in the Next Few Decades (Fan into Flame: Peter Ko)
Six Fears About Immigrant Ministry (Unity in Christ Magazine)
Stephen Rhodes / Where the Nations Meet. The Church in a Multicultural World
Supporting Second Generation Church Leaders (L2 Foundation)
Teaching Cross-Culturally / Lingenfelter & Lingenfelter
This is Your Brain on Culture (David Livermore)
The Threefold Chinese Model of Church (Andrew Hong)
Transforming a Homogeneous Church into a Multi-Ethnic Church Community
The Uniqueness of Christ in a Postmodern World and the Challenge of World Religions (Lausanne Movement. LOP 31)
Voting – East and West (Andrew Hong)
Wayland Wong on Chinese Church Challenges in North America (theReformission: Eugene Hor)
What God is Doing in Multi-Ethnic Churches Can Be Found in Outreach’s 2010 Top 100 Largest & Fastest Growing Churches In America (Unity in Christ magazine)
What is Contextualisation and is it Biblical? (GlobeServe Journal of Missions)
Why We Need Stereotypes! (David Livermore)
Willingdon Church International Church Model (Unity in Christ magazine)
Will Multiculturalism Unite or Disunite?
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4. Videos
Chad Brennan
- Multi-Ethnic Church in the Suburbs? 1/3
- Multi-Ethnic Church in the Suburbs? 2/3
- Multi-Ethnic Church in the Suburbs? 3/3
David Livermore:
David Park:
Talking Around Each Other [Communication between Generations]
Desmond Morris:
Douglas Hayward:
Eugene Cho:
Interview with Soong-Chan Rah about his book The Next Evangelicalism
Fons Trompenaars:
Geert Hofstede:
Collectivism and Individualism
HSBC:
Cultural Differences. Personal Space (ad)
Sociology – Cultural Differences (humorous ad)
John Oommen:
Joy Luck Club (movie):
Dinner Scene (graphically illustrates cultural difference)
Ken Fong:
Kevin Doi:
Power Distance Ratios (in Epic Church)
Michael Wesch:
Seinfeld:
Culture and Personal Space (humorous)
Sherwood Lingenfelter:
Session 1: Cross-Cultural Leadership: Culture is Not Neutral (from 5.00 to 13.10)
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5. Websites
Churches, Cultures & Leadership
International Journal of Frontier Missiology
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