Overcoming Cultural and Systemic Challenges: Exploring How Minority Pastors Overcome Leadership Challenges In Majority Culture Congregations
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (836 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0734Z7KZF |
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| Number of Pages | : | 436 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Every church leader should have this book! An important read!" according to JessiB. Pastor Edward Koh has some amazing insight into this important, and often overlooked, issue within our churches. This book should be on the shelves of every pastor's office- I would highly recommend it to anyone!. Thomas Ortho said I highly recommend this book. Lots of helpful information here. I highly recommend this book.
Increasingly, both majority culture congregations and minority pastors are seeking to labor together for the sake of the gospel in our racially divided communities. Even though Jesus destroyed the dividing wall of ethnic and racial hostility and created a whole new humanity of equal privilege and dignity, the pervasive nature of racialized patterns in the American evangelical church undermines the influence and impact of minorities in leadership. . My hope is that all pastors, regardless of color, will begin to gain biblical, historical, cultural, and practical insights from these pages for their own callings and make a lasting gospel difference. In this qualitative research, I interviewed six minority pastors serving in predominantly white congregations in the PCA (Presbyterian Church in America) to explore how they overcome leadership challenges unique to their particular callings and contexts. What unique challenges do minority pastors encounter in majority culture congregations? How do majority culture pastors and congregants impact the leadership of minority pastors? Why do some minority pastors thrive in majority culture congregations while others merely survive? How does the or