Rev. Dr. Safwat Marzouk will lead a 90 minute workshop on what it means to be an intercultural church. This workshop is designed for our Administrative Board and Kitchen Table Leaders. A simple lunch will be provided. RSVP to Pastor Matt to help us plan for the meal.
Safwat Marzouk’s newest book, Intercultural Church: A Biblical Vision for an Age of Migration, will be published on October 1, 2019. Dr. Marzouk offers a biblical vision for what it means to be an intercultural church, one that fosters just diversity, integrates different cultural articulations of faith and worship, and embodies an alternative to the politics of assimilation and segregation. A church that fosters intercultural identity learns how to embrace and celebrate difference, which in turn enriches its worship and ministry. While the church in North America might see migration as an opportunity to serve God’s kingdom by showing hospitality to the migrant and the alien, migration offers the church an opportunity to renew itself by rediscovering the biblical vision of the church as a diverse community. This biblical vision views cultural, linguistic, racial, and ethnic differences as gifts from God that can enrich the church’s worship, deepen the sense of fellowship in the church, and broaden the church’s witness to God’s reconciling mission in the world.