847: Multiethnicity in the Church: An Optional Possibility or Gospel-Necessity?

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🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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As the title suggests, this episode is all about the question of multi-ethnicity in the body of Christ. And Dr. Gray is the right person to challenge us in this conversation. Dr. Derwin L. Gray is the founding and lead pastor of Transformation Church, one of the largest multiethnic, multigenerational, mission-shaped communities in the U.S., located in Indian Land, South Carolina, just south of Charlotte, North Carolina.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw. If you would like to support
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0:25.2	you want more information on that would really appreciate your support. I have on the show today,
0:31.0	a friend of mine, Dr. Durwin Gray, and Durwin's been on the show before. And one of my favorite
0:37.5	pastors in America, one of my favorite people to engage with this dude is an incredible preacher.
0:46.1	He has an amazing heart for people, tons of pastoral wisdom, and the mind of a scholar. This dude
0:53.2	is absolutely super sharp. He has an M div from Southern evangelical seminary. He also has an
1:02.7	honorary doctorate from the same school, I believe. Yes, he's got an honorary doctorate from
1:08.2	Southern evangelical seminary. And then another doctorate and earn doctorate from Northern seminary
1:13.2	where he studied under Scott McKnight, his main area of research and writing is on multi-ethnic
1:21.0	churches. He pastors transformation church in South Carolina, which is one of, if not the,
1:27.1	I think it's the largest multi-ethnic church in America. And he has become kind of a father to many
1:33.8	other multi-ethnic church planters. And this is a huge heart of his. And we talk a lot about that
1:40.4	on the podcast and why he's so driven to pursuing this really difficult ministry of multi-ethnic
1:50.3	pastoring multi-ethnic churches and multi-ethnic, not in the sense of assimilating people into a
1:56.0	white dominated culture, but genuinely integrating different cultures into one body of Christ. And he
2:02.3	has some very strong theological convictions about this vision, which I think are absolutely
2:07.8	fantastic. He is an avid writer. He's written lots of books and is working on many more, which we
2:12.8	talked about in the podcast. The one that I, I think I first came across a derwin or at least,
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