Should Every Church be Multiethnic? SOLA Editorial Board member Daniel K. Eng interviewed Rick Hardison, lead pastor of Lakewood Ranch Baptist Church, who completed a PhD with his dissertation called, “A Theological Critique of the Multiethnic Church Movement.”
We also shared Renee Zou’s article: What Comes to Mind When You Think of Heaven? And I reviewed Sam D. Kim’s new book: From Doubt to Faith: Book Review of “A Holy Haunting.”
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Ricky Njoto: Three Things Jonathan Edwards Teaches Us about Holy Communion
“By far the most important aspect of Holy Communion, for Edwards, lies in the present. After all, just as Christ was present physically in the Last Supper 2,000 years ago, he is also present spiritually at every Lord’s Supper today. For Edwards, the Holy Communion is a physical sign of a spiritual reality: that Christians are joined together in Christ.”
2. Tim Challies: Banksy and Beauty from Ashes
God takes what has been purposefully destroyed, what has been willfully ruined, what has been blown up by our own acts of sabotage, and he works upon it until it is a beautiful and precious work of art.
Related: Learning and Writing about God and the Church: An Interview with Tim Challies by Aaron Lee
3. Curtis Yee: Asian American Theologian: Our ‘Culture’ Is Not to Blame
“When it comes to the community’s response to trauma and anxiety, Daniel D. Lee calls for a closer look at the dynamics of racism and the migrant experience.”
The SOLA College Writing Cohort is our new writing cohort for college-age students to receive mentorship and training as young Christian writers. Editorial Board member Soojin Park will personally be leading this initiative, and she is very excited at the prospect of nurturing the next generation of Asian American thinkers and writers who will help encourage and edify the Church!
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Sam Choi: Prayer and Fasting
This message was given as a part of the Bethlehem College and Seminary spring 2023 chapel series on Prayer.
2. Off the Pulpit Podcast: The Wives Takeover
In this episode, the wives takeover and chat about all things pastor wife life and women in the church.
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book reviews: Words of the Resurrected by Robert J. Nash, All About Bible Animals (Kids Book) by Simona Piscionera. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
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Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Aaron Lee: From Doubt to Faith: Book Review of “A Holy Haunting”
What is faith and where does it come from? Is faith just a whim? Or is there something deeper? In A Holy Haunting, Sam D. Kim shows “why faith isn’t a leap but a series of staggers from one safe place to another.”
2. Renee Zou: What Comes to Mind When You Think of Heaven?
Fellow Christian, we are destined for the new heavens and the new earth. God is longing to bring us home. Are we longing for the same?
3. Daniel K. Eng: Should Every Church be Multiethnic? (Part 2): An Interview with Rick Hardison
Whether there is a mandate to be a part of a multiethnic church, approaching people with their heart languages to bridge cultural gaps, the relationship between contextualization and unity, the need for multiethnic and ethnic-specific churches, serving the people living in your church’s proximity, and the difficulties of being an ethnic-specific church.
4. Daniel K. Eng: Should Every Church be Multiethnic? (Part 1): An Interview with Rick Hardison
Where we get the idea of the “multiethnic mandate,” what the Bible does (or doesn’t) say about multiethnic churches, how to think about ethnic church “divisions,” and the stories of the Tower of Babel and Pentecost.
5. TGIF: Roundup for April 7, 2023
Gods and Gangsters / These 3 Japanese Christian Women Changed Their Country / Narco Saints’ Drug-Dealing Pastor / Moving to a New Place with Irene Sun / Gateway Chapel: Hanley Liu
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.