Tom Sine of Mustard Seed Associates outlines the third stream in his The New Conspirators:
The New Conspirators: The Mosaic Stream
"In the UK, more churches were planted in the last seven years than Starbucks were opened--over 1,000 churches as compared to only 750 Starbucks coffee shops. Interestingly, most of these church plants were ethnic and multi-cultural
God is doing something through a new generation, as I report in The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time, which will be published by IVP in 2008. I believe God is working through at least four streams: the emerging church, missional churches, mosaic church plants and the monastic movement. This issue of the Seed Sampler will attempt to describe what God is doing through those in the mosaic stream, which I define as multi-cultural church plants. While the emerging and missional leadership is overwhelmingly male and white, in this stream, God is doing something new through leaders from a number of different cultures."
Read the whole article here.
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More MSA articles on Mosaic Churches are on the MSA newsletter are on the extension below.
The New Conspirators: Seed Share–Sanctuary Covenant Church in Minneapolis
Sanctuary Covenant Church is an example of a Mosaic church plant that has created a richly multicultural community learning to share the gifts of God’s kingdom across the boundaries of race and class. The church is becoming a living, breathing model of the new family that Jesus was intent on creating. As you will see, one of their distinguishing characteristics is the focus outward on the needs of the people in the urban community of which they are a part in Minneapolis. The pastor of this innovative church plant, Efrem Smith, is also a co-author of the important book The Hip Hop Church. He will be joining us at MSA’s New Conspirators Conference at the end of February to share the story of Sanctuary Covenant. #
Click here to read the profile of Sanctuary Covenant.
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The New Conspirators: Seed Share–Quest Church in Seattle
Quest Church in Seattle is an innovative multicultural church plant in Seattle that reaches out to their community in creative ways with both word and deed mission. It started in 2000 as a coffee shop called Q Cafe, and recently merged with Interbay Covenant Church, which was next door. Pastor Eugene Cho raises important questions on his blog about everything from race and racialization to the recent crisis in Burma. Eugene will be speaking at our conference next February.
Click here to read the profile of Quest.
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The New Conspirators: Seed Share–Racism Is In the Eye of the Beholder
Racism is in the eye of the beholder. I don’t say this as a cute turn of phrase–I mean it in the sense of a well-known parable: you may call it a speck or a plank, but I assure you, it’s in your eye. The problem with racism is that we see what we want to see, but what we fail to see is how it affects our sight. Rather than acknowledge real differences in ethnicity and race, we choose to turn a blind eye to it as though plucking our eyes out would prevent the sin altogether. In our haste for the kingdom come, we gloss over tainted histories and plant quasi-innovative churches in the belief that good doctrine and right worship together will solve our differences. But don’t you see? We’ve been trying that for hundreds of years already.”
Read the whole article here.
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The New Conspirators: Mosaic Resources
Tom Sine’s “Mosaic” Book List–download it here
Ethnic Harvest, www.ethnicharvest.org
Latino Leadership Circle, latinoleadershipcircle.typepad.com
Musings of a Postmodern Negro, postmodernegro.com
Next Gener.Asian Church, nextgenerasianchurch.com
Emerging Women, emergingwomen.blogspot.com
Warren St. John, “As the World Comes to Georgia, an Old Church Adapts,” The New York Times (Septmeber 22, 2007), p. A1. Read the article online here.
Jonathan Petre, “Pentecostals spearhead big rise in new churches,” Telegraph (February 27, 2006), accessed October 16, 2007, here.
Mark R. Francis, “Models for Multicultural Liturgy,” accessed October 17, 2007, here.
Multicultural Liturgy Resources, www.fdlc.org/Liturgy_Resources/LITURGY_&_CULTURE.htm
Duke Center for Reconciliation, Duke Divinity School, www.divinity.duke.edu/reconciliation
John Perkins Center for Reconciliation, Leadership Training, and Community Development, www.spu.edu/depts/jperkins
Living Mosaic Church, Burlington, Ontario, www.livingmosaicchurch.com
Madison Square Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan, www.madisonsquarechurch.org
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