Multicultural Worship Song story: Nothing But The Blood

Multicultural Worship

“Nothing But the Blood” is one of my favorite hymns. We recorded it as part of an original song called “Your Blood” on our Your Kingdom Come (and Venga Tu Reino) cd’s.We sing it often in worship concerts and have led it in English, Spanish, and Emberá. We just released it in a medley with the Haitian Creole song, “Loue” on our Hymns With Global Songs cd. The Emberá are an indigenous group in Panamá […]

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Cultural Intelligence

Multicultural Relationship

Recently, I have been writing regularly for an online magazine called Unity in Christ. They have articles from a variety of different people who are quite knowledgeable about multicultural ministry and they do a good job of equipping, informing, and educating their readers on how to serve a multi-ethnic society in today’s multi-cultural world. This edition, I particularly enjoyed an article by Dr. David Livermore entitled Cultural Intelligence and its role in Effective Multicultural Ministry. […]

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Multilingual Worship: Is It Worth It?

Multicultural Relationship

Is it worth the trouble to sing in a new/different language if there is only one person there who speaks it? I’d say… YES! Imagine this… You have grown up as a White American in the suburbs of a mid-size city in the Midwest. You have never traveled. God (via your company) then moves you to a country where hardly any English is spoken… let’s say somewhere in India. Everything is different there from the […]

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