Looking at ourselves, churches and the society in which we live with our eyes open to the realities of racism and ethnocentrism brings to each of us the opportunity to give analysis to the church. Your conversation in this threaded discussion will explore and wrestle with this topic. This challenging topic is fundamental in thinking through our approach and potential productivity in accomplishing multicultural ministry.
During these past three weeks of study, dialog, reading and lecture you should be coming to realize the difficulties and challenges, as well as the benefits and opportunities of multicultural ministry. One of the greatest challenges is often our own view of the world. Each of us has the potential to be overly (or overtly) ethnocentric. While there is significance to the fact that cultural pride (self-worth and cultural worth) are important to the sustainability of a culture the reality is that too often in society, cultural pride moves to a level of animos
