Editor’s Note: Networks

by Ted Esler
by Ted Esler
Passionate Admirers In Every People Group
Anthology is not merely meant to inform. We want to encourage, provoke, and stir up action among our readers.
It has been over ten years since the following manifesto was signed in Columbia, SC. The work done on this manifesto continues to be relevant to the North American missions community.
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: “Sunday is the most segregated day of the week.” When some of my brothers and sisters in Christ hear this oft-quoted statement, they assume the end game should be multiethnic churches comprised of members representing a variety of hues and ethnicities.
Be ready always to give an answer for the hope within you.
Diverse church, diverse mission. If the Great Commission is a calling to bring redemption in Christ into the diversity of all nations, people groups, cultures, and languages, how do we hope to be effective from where we live, from where we’ve been formed, and from what we see and don’t see?
Cultures have corporate sins. In the United States we suffer from materialism, racism and other maladies. In the Balkans the prevailing sin is division, rooted in ethnic hatred.
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