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Re: Korean hostage crisis

Joel A. Montes — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:12:40 -0000

I just read the 2 most recent posts on Eugene Cho's website from the link in this article.
I find it bitterly ironic that the larger Church is so indifferent both behind the pulpit and in the major news feeds online and in t.v./radio.

But the comment Eugene Cho put about the person asking him why he is providing a daily update was even more depressing for me. This is in light of the fact that the Church, like the world, is more concerned about entertainment news and personalities than with what is going on worldwide. For example, there are not too many complaints about all these "reality" shows on t.v. and the daily updates of the "stars" or about the NFL, or professional sports, etc.

This apathy about things "spiritual" in contrast to things "worldly" should raise the most concern among the leaders of the Church.

Re: multiethnic churches saying and doing different things

Joel A. Montes — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:20:08 -0000

Wow! I don't know what to say or add except to say thank you for saying what you said! I'm reading your blogs more attentively lately because its easy to forget (especially going to a conservative Seminary in so Cal) about how serious our churches are racially divided and our indifference and apathy at making real consorted efforts at reaching out to the "despised" cultures in the immediate surroundings of our churches, which may vary. It's like a mental or spiritual "grove" sort of speak. A broken record will keep playing a song up to the point where the scratch, unintentionally, is located, and there is nothing that can change that except replace it with the right song. I think this issue of racism in the Amer Churches is the same. People will listen when its being addressed, most likely listen, but then get back into the same old "grove" when the lesson/sermon/conference what have you is finished. What really needs to be done is to change the whole mission of the church to one that actively incorporates reconciliation and includes a consorted effort by the whole church, not just the pastor. I think sometimes the Pastor/teacher gets tired, even discouraged, of having to bring back this anwareness to the church.

I'm reviewing some of your articles about the future of Asian American churches a few posts back because I will be sharing at Chinese Baptist Church of Thousand Oaks on the topic of cross cultural evangelism called, How to Evangelize to Latinos under the presupposition that culture shapes theology. Thanks for enlightening me about a different way to share the gospel, one that respects and takes into consideration differences among groups of people, not just individual ones.

Re: many kinds of emerging church

Joel A. Montes — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:48:11 -0000

I'm still reading about what the Puritan's have to say about ecclesiology but thanks anyway.