Becoming brothers : how multi-ethnic church planting partners pastor together

Carpenter, Brad

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Becoming brothers : how multi-ethnic church planting partners pastor together

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Carpenter, Brad. Becoming Brothers : How Multi-ethnic Church Planting Partners Pastor Together. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/1a5e7ea3-c52b-4480-b750-c1cda8845642.

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C. Brad. Becoming brothers : how multi-ethnic church planting partners pastor together. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/1a5e7ea3-c52b-4480-b750-c1cda8845642

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Carpenter, Brad. Becoming Brothers : How Multi-Ethnic Church Planting Partners Pastor Together. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/1a5e7ea3-c52b-4480-b750-c1cda8845642.

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Carpenter, Brad

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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore how multi-ethnic church planting partners pastor together. A failure to understand and teach the New Testament vision of a multi-ethnic church undergirds the American church’s failure to address the issue of racialization and segregation on Sunday mornings. Solo pastoring and church planting have not proven to be an ideal environment for pastoral health and flourishing. Majority culture efforts to church plant in minority communities have suffered due to a lack of local leadership, cultural illiteracy and a failure of gospel contextualization. A small but growing group of pastors and church planters have found that partnering with someone of another ethnicity is a vehicle to address these issues. This study utilized a qualitative design using semi-structured interviews with ten pastors from denominations in the greater reformed community who were each a member of a multi-ethnic pastoral partnership. The literature review and analysis of the interviews focused on three key areas to understand how multi-ethnic partners pastor together: a biblical theology of multi-ethnic churches, relational health in leadership theory and practice, and indigenous leadership development. This study came to three major conclusions: multi-ethnic partners are convinced that a biblical church is a multi-ethnic church; choosing to pastor with a partner of a different ethnicity is a vehicle for pursuing emotional and relational health in ministry that every pastor needs; and multi-ethnic pastoral partnerships are public vehicles to demonstrate gospel reconciliation, mutual submission and celebrate the diversity made possible by the gospel. This is a witness a racialized world desperately needs to see. To explore these challenges, this study identified the motivations and practices which contributed to fruitful multi-ethnic pastoral partnerships.

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