Breaking Racial and Cultural Barriers in Your Church: Part 2

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

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🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this podcast, Pete shares 6 unique contributions Emotionally Healthy Discipleship brings to the challenge of bridging barriers of race, culture and class and shares the final four contributions of EH Discipleship to this pressing global issue that confronts us as the church in the 21st century.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Scazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy leader
0:06.5	podcast. Fantastic to be with you. And today's a second part of a little series on two parts
0:11.9	called Breaking Racial and Cultural Barriers in your church or community, breaking cultural and
0:16.8	racial barriers in your church or community. Last week, I invited people to send in questions.
0:22.2	I got quite a few. I'll try to answer a few of them as we go along. But one of them had to do with,
0:27.4	you know, my church is in a monocultural community. So therefore, we're one culture, you know,
0:33.4	one race in our particular church, thus is apply to us. And the answer is absolutely,
0:38.3	we live in a globalized environment because of globalization, technology, communications.
0:46.7	We are all exposed to vast differences across race, culture, ethnicities, almost on a daily basis.
0:53.2	And so this will apply to every Christ
0:56.3	follower in the world as we seek to, in the name of Jesus, bridge racial, cultural,
1:01.5	economic, and even gender barriers. So remember, and the reason I'm doing this podcast,
1:06.8	because I believe that E.H. discipleship has a particular contribution to make to this wider discussion.
1:12.6	By no means is the last word, but it is a particular contribution which we have seen fleshed out over, you know,
1:19.6	decades here at New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York, and it's been very powerful and significant.
1:26.6	So that's what I really want to offer you today.
1:28.5	But let me just give some introductory comments here before I dive into it.
1:32.0	That racism and prejudice division was a major issue in the Roman Empire in the first century.
1:39.1	And the gospel melted down barriers that had been there for centuries between peoples. And the first Christians
1:45.3	saw themselves very much as a part of a worldwide, multiracial, multicultural family that transcended
1:51.4	all national, social, racial, and economic barriers. And one of the tasks that the church
1:56.8	understood for themselves in that first century was to break down these walls of hostility and hatred through Jesus, through the blood of Jesus that has destroyed the
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