Building a Multiethnic Church: A Gospel Vision of Love, Grace, and Reconciliation in a Divided World

by Derwin L. Gray, Matt Chandler (Foreword by)

Overview

America has become a beautiful mosaic filled with many colors and ethnicities—but does your church reflect this change? Are you longing to be a cross-cultural leader who can guide the church into a multicolored world for the sake of the gospel? If so, Building a Multiethnic Church will give you the tools to embrace an invigorated community of grace, love, and reconciliation.

In Building a Multiethnic Church, bestselling author and pastor Dr. Derwin Gray calls all churches and their leaders to grow out of ignorance, classism, racism, and greed into a flourishing, vibrant, and grace-filled community of believers.

Drawing on wisdom from the early church and the New Testament, Gray will help you

• understand that planting and transforming churches into multiethnic communities is a biblical calling;
• identify and implement the best practices to help build multiethnic churches; and
• recognize that reconciliation between ethnic groups in the church is not just a social issue, but a theological issue that cannot be ignored.

— Previously published as The High-Definition Leader, now revised and updated—

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781400230488
Publisher:	Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date:	04/06/2021
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.45(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Dr. Derwin L. Gray is the cofounder along with his wife Vicki, and leader pastor of Transformation Church, a multiethnic, multigenerational, mission-shaped church in the Charlotte, NC, area. Dr. Gray has been married since 1992 and has two adult children. He played six seasons in the NFL. In 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Southern Evangelical Seminary. In 2018, he received his Doctor of Ministry in the New Testament in Context at Northern Seminary under Dr. Scot McKnight. He is the author of several books, including the national bestseller, The Good Life.

Table of Contents

Foreword Matt Chandler xvii

Introduction: What Is a Gospel-Shaped Leader? xxi

1 Gospel-Shaped Leadership 1

2 Seeing Life for the First Time 25

3 Seeing Salvation through the Lens Of Upward, Inward, Outward 45

4 Seeing Christ Jesus and God's Eternal Plan 71

5 Seeing Missionally and Reconciliationally 99

6 Seeing the Beautiful Gospel Story 125

7 Seeing the Church through a Gospel Vision 145

8 Seeing Discipleship and Leadership through the Gospel 167

9 Seeing the World to Come 193

Conclusion Are You In? 215

Acknowledgments 219

Notes 221

About the Author 229