In addition, to aid healing and allow the Church in the West to enjoy the gifts of diversity from the African Christians, the Western Church must do more to challenge the anomaly of White superiority and racial discrimination.
Tag: Missio Africanus
Second Generation Diaspora
If the future of diaspora Christianity in Europe isn’t on your agenda, then it should be!
The future of the world church is bound up with the rising generation of Christians in Africa. We need to understand what is going on.
When I reviewed Harvey Kwiyani’s book Multicultural Kingdom, I said: I think that it is a very good book indeed. I will go further and say that it is an important book which catches the most essential issue facing evangelicalism in the UK today – an issue which is widely ignored. If you lead a […]
The Future is Cross Cultural
If the church in the UK is to have a significant future, it will be as a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic body. We can either get on board with that, or we can be consigned to a slow and ignominious slide into irrelevancy.
Whatever we do, when we talk about Western Christianity in the twenty-first century, we need to bear in mind that it is not all white and it does not only speak a European language.
Having grown from 140 million to 650 million in 50 years, Africa has gained more than 10 million new Christians every year since 1970. That is more than the population of Switzerland, Austria or Sweden converting to Christianity every year for the last 50 years
What is God’s Multicultural Kingdom?
How have multiculturalism and evangelism been entwined since the first days of the Church’s mission? How is multiculturalism part of the Christian faith’s DNA? Why is the Church of today more tribal than it was 2000 years ago? How should an awareness of each others gifts change how we do Church and leadership? How is the medium the message?
African Pentecostal churches need to learn to step out of their boundaries if they are to reach the UK. Then again, so do conservative British churches.
World Christianity in Western Europe
Christianity in Europe is no longer a purely European phenomenon. This 40 minute interview gives some insights into what God is doing in Europe today.