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Course
Leading Churches Toward Racial Justice
~15 Hours
This course will empower you with a biblical framework and a narrative approach for discussing these issues with groups at various levels within the community.
Len Tang
About This Course
In the United States and around the world, racial unrest has polarized or paralyzed both the culture and the church. So how can pastors, church planters, and church leaders guide their churches to live out God’s heart for justice in their church and community? This course will empower you with a biblical framework and a narrative approach for discussing these issues with groups at various levels within the community: as individuals, in small discussion groups, as a congregation, and in partnership with other churches in your city so that both the individual and systemic dimensions of racism are addressed. Join Len Tang, with the support of Fuller’s Pannell Center for Black Church Studies, in taking the first steps towards bridging the divides in Christ’s name!
Learning Outcomes
- Describe racism as a crucial challenge to the credibility of the gospel
- Recognize how your own racial background has influenced your life, faith, and ministry, and convene groups to help others do the same
- Identify key moments in the racial history of your church and city, and discern who to partner with to address racism in your context in Jesus’ name
Created in partnership with the Church Planting Initiative and FULLER Equip.
- Lead Pastor
- Church & Ministry
- Leadership
Introduction
1. Introduction
2. The Urgent Cry for Racially Just Churches
3. Biblical Framework for Racial Justice
4. Defining Terms & Discussing Race
Creating Spaces for Stories
5. Knowing Your Own Story, Part 1
6. Knowing Your Own Story, Part 2
7. Convening Racial Narrative Groups
8. Understanding Your City’s Racial History
9. Researching Your City’s Racial History
Re-Ordering Power
10. Sharing Power in Your Church
11. Building a Racial Justice Team
12. Organizing for Justice
Conclusion
13. Summary
14. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Len Tang
Church Planter Program Director, M.Div
Len is the Church Planting Program director at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is married to Amy and they have three boys. Len received a B.S. from UC Berkeley and an MDiv from Fuller Seminary. He has planted two churches: Cedar Creek Church in 2004 outside of Portland, Oregon, and Missio Community Church in 2018 in Pasadena, California.
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