Before You Do That, Try This

Faith is your driving force. You care about diversity, multicultural and cross-cultural ministry because of your relationship with Jesus. But you’ve been told that church or ministry isn’t the place for these conversations, that just by asking questions, you’ve become the problem. You’re being political. You’ve seen things happening in the world around you, lived experiences that churches and even some of the Christians you interact with regularly don’t seem to recognize. You may have even had a moment, even if just for a second, when you’ve felt like you had to leave behind your ethnic or cultural identity in order to walk together with those in your community of faith.

All of this can make you start to feel isolated. You can even start to wonder if maybe isolation is where you need to be right now. Before you give in to that feeling, try this challenge. Connect here with the Voice of the Middle Ground Community and the resources you’ll find connected with this page. When you do, we promise you’ll find 3 opportunities.

Connect with Other Christians with Shared Commitment

You’re not alone in your commitment to living out your faith. This is a community where you’ll get to experience that through devotional content, ministry highlights, and other connection points. As you interact, you’ll be able to experience and to contribute to this connection. And, you’ll get ideas that you can take with you into your local church to share with others who also may feel isolated. You can connect them here to these resources as well. It’s kind of an each-one-connect-one model. Through this model, you’ll break up the noise so that you can step back and then step forward stronger. This is something that, at Voice of the Middle Ground, we believe in and that we know you’ll see for yourself as you connect with us here and as faith continues to be your driving force.

You’re not alone in your commitment to living out your faith.

Grow and Be Strengthened in Faith

Connecting with a community where you’re not the only one who sees the importance of multicultural ministry allows you to not feel like you’re on the defensive. When you spend less energy fighting, you can be more receptive to the work of the Holy Spirit through the Word.   

Voice of the Middle Ground offers great resources to help on your journey of faith. These are resources from educators, ministers, pastors, and professionals who are experts in the areas where God has blessed them to be able to serve. These are people whose lives are being transformed by Christ and who, because of this transformation that is happening in their lives, believe that the Church has a place in conversations about race and ethnicity and are also committed to embracing God’s gift of diversity as they engage in the ministries that have been entrusted to them and in the churches where God has placed them.

Engage with Scripture in New Ways

Go from feeling that something isn’t right to knowing why that is Biblically, how Scripture speaks to these concerns, and what you can do in your local context to make a difference at your church and in your community. Learn how Scripture speaks to concerns about racial prejudice and discrimination. Engage with Scripture in new ways that embrace the truth of 2 Timothy 3:16-17. Because the Bible is true and it does speak to every part of your life and the lives of those God places on your path.

Your journey has brought you here. We’re grateful for that. Thank you for letting Voice of the Middle Ground walk with you through it.

As you think about your faith journey and what’s brought you to connect with Voice of the Middle Ground,
what’s one thing that stands out to you? Share it with us in the comments.