Stop grumbling about them and start fighting for them!
That’s what I wished I would have done!! Christ bled for them so why wasn’t I fighting for them?
Gospel unity is a fragile thing in many Asian American churches. In my opinion AA churches need to do more than your average church to fight for it. Think about the challenges. There is the “one church, many congregations” structure, making for interesting church polity. A whole slew of issues flow from that, which we won’t get into here. There’s also the language divide as congregations are are language specific (Cantonese, Mandarin, English). Then there’s the generation divide. As many of us know, the English congregation tends to be a “second-generation” congregation. Their immigrant parents desire to hear the Word preached in their native language, and so they attend the service where their mother-tongue is spoken. Eventually they have children and send them to the English-speaking congregation. Given these daunting challenges that threaten to break down gospel unity in the AA Church, how can English congregations war for their brothers’ and sisters’ faith in effort to preserve a church-wide gospel unity?
It’s our hope this new series of posts will encourage you in your own fight for gospel unity, for Jesus’ namesake. For me (and I assume for JEng and Geoff), some of the content that I’ll be writing stems from personal failures. And I pray you are helped by them.
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