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Re: Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, together

Peter Ong — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:24:00 -0000

Hoping to get the book soon and looking forward to discussing these issue in-depth.

Re: Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, together

William Woo — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:07:55 -0000

And konami's 2nd issue of bringing people who would feel uncomfortable. I just think that if the church is taught to love Jesus, and Love the lost, they wouldn't feel uncomfortable.

It takes two to tangle...

(are you real i. konami?)

Re: Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, together

William Woo — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:03:45 -0000

lol, I actually emailed i.konami (mail came back...) this is what I wrote:
Hello i,

I am interested in the discussion. I think that many are feeling the call to break out of the Asian Context. NSD Underground in Dallas is a new church coming out of an Asian American church. The question is will Asians be accepted by the broader culture. Fort Bend Community Church was started by Chinese with the idea that the name would reflect the desire to go into the neighborhood. They had a backdoor problem (couldn't keep the non-Asians) so the English Pastor is starting a new church down the road. (This is in the Houston area).

The thing about Asian American is that it is not ethnic specific, there is much variance, from East Asians, to South Asians to Southeast Asians, Indonesians, and all the various groups. I think the Asian Church is a stepping stone or a stairway if you will to the greater multiethnic/global/worldwide vision of the Bible. See before there were only Korean, or Chinese, or Japanese, or Indonesian, or Pinay only churches. The AA church is just a bridge. (We didn't get the two piece thong bikini right away). Fashion started by showing a little ankle, and slowly the hemlines went up...I think the same can be said of Church in America.

Other than that, I would think that we should join with non-Asians as the above churches have been called to do.

-My 2 cents :-)

Re: Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, together

Anikisan — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:24:13 -0000

The book looks intriguing though since I became a Christian I've never gone back to Japanese ghetto I used to haunt BC (I went to college and was converted in a very non-Asian area). My brother, on the other hand has never broken out and I think his perspective suffers for it.

Re: Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, together

Guest — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:04:58 -0000

i'm in... somehow... grid blogging... commenting... sharing thotz... my brane hertz already

Re: Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, together

stew — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:30:12 -0000

thanks for the feed on Dave's blog. I got to hang with Dave and the gang in Dec. in Bangkok... great guy, very humble... He's Captain Discernment and a HUGE visionary. Glad you're helping us stay in touch with your's and his world...

Re: Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, together

isamu — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:47:43 -0000

with humility as a confessed sinner saved only by His works; can someone please explain to me the benefits of an ethnic specific english-speaking church in the USA. i am asian-american and love my heritage but the thought trying to bring non-believers of a different background to an ethnic-specific church to only have them feel uncomfortable is tough to deal with. please respond to i.kanomi@gmail.com. thanks!!!

Re: Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, together

Jon — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:24:23 -0000

I told you about the book. Count me in!

Re: Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, together

David Park — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:16:09 -0000

Finished the first chapter yesterday. Looking forward to it.

Re: Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, together

Glennis — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:05:57 -0000

I was just talking to a fellow brother about the justification for ethnic specific ministries and churches...I'm definitely interested in reading this book and discussing!

Re: Growing Healthy Asian American Churches, together

William Woo — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:26:06 -0000

Would love to read the book and participate.