A Multi-cultural church

September 26, 2010

“Canadians are:
1. Either English or French
2. Bilingual
3. Peaceful and respect authority
4. Tolerant and welcoming to newcomers
5. None of the above
6. All of the above
7. None of the above and all of the above

If you answered 7, you’re a real Canadian. You understand we’re not who we’re told we are.”

Since the day-to-day contacts of our members are a mosaic of different ethnicity and colour, our church must reflect that multi-cultural and multi-racial mix of the mission field that is right in our midst. While predominantly Chinese, we must strive to consciously grow into a multi-cultural, international community of believers. A church that only reaches “its own kind” in a setting like Canada will be seen as ethnocentric and irrelevant and unfaithful to the vineyard that God has placed us.

In the next few years, we will consciously widen our sphere of influence in our social settings to deliberately win and disciple people of different races.

Revelation 7:9-10 will then be God’s will done on earth as it is in heaven. Hallelujah and Amen!

9After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."