Tag: Humility

Multicultural Worship: A Sacrifice of Praise

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This blog was written by Eileen Howard and posted at: http://bytheirstrangefruit.blogspot.com/2011/07/we-bring-sacrifice-of-praise.html By Their Strange Fruit has a lot of good things to say about multicultural life and ministry and I thought this was very much worth sharing. Look for other guest blogs by By Their Strange Fruit in 2012! ———————————————————————————————————- Across America on Sunday, about 43% of the population will go to worship. In most cases, they will worship with folks who are pretty much […]

Outward Appearances

Posted joshLeave a commentPosted in Multicultural Relationship, Multicultural Worship

I just recently heard a story from a man who hosted Proskuneo at his church’s missions conference back in 2010. He shared that the first morning, while we were warming up before the service, 3 different people from his congregation approached him. They were concerned that some of the guys in our group had long hair…and spiky hair…and chains hanging from their pants. They were appalled that this man would invite us to lead in […]

We All Bleed Red

Posted royce2 CommentsPosted in Multicultural Relationship, Multicultural Worship

“It’s my way or the highway!” How many times have you heard that statement, or something to that effect throughout your everyday life? Friends with differing opinions on what movie they want to see, siblings arguing over who gets the last piece of cake, or congregations adamant that their style of worship is best, we all tend to think that our way is somehow superior to all others. You might ask yourself, “Are these differences […]