We all interact cross-culturally on a regular basis. Here are some stories and tips on engaging in those interactions well.
Ethnicity, Reconciliation, and Justice
Our kingdom mission will advance in greater measure as power gets balanced between the genders. We must do better.
What keeps us from building solid, thriving ministry partnerships between women and men?
God does not stop hearing the cries of the afflicted when our news feed changes topic.
At Thanksgiving we are guests at God鈥檚 table of healing and grace. As good guests, we receive his grace and forgiveness and carry it out into the world to be agents of healing, even in the places where we have brought the brokenness.
Sometimes God displaces us and sometimes we choose displacement to survive, thrive, or walk in obedience to God. However we end up being displaced, whether through persecution, a natural disaster, or by choice, such as taking a specific job, God uses displacement to shape us and draw us closer to him.
As the hashtag #MeToo floods our social media outlets to raise awareness for sexual harassment, we need to ask how we got to the point where almost every woman has experienced some type of it. How did our world become a place where so many women are treated with such little respect?
Do I really believe that change would come if I stopped my 鈥渁ctions鈥 and 鈥渏ust鈥 prayed for reconciliation and justice and provision for those in need? And do I really believe, when I am working for justice, that it鈥檚 actually God who brings about the change, and not me? Most of the time, I鈥檓 not sure I do.
If there鈥檚 one thing that鈥檚 helped to keep me rooted and growing, it鈥檚 been paying attention to place.
How should we think about serving? If we love doing it, are we fulfilling Jesus鈥 call to give up our lives? And how can we learn to love sacrificially, in ways that cost us something?