multiculturalism

Multiculturalism ideally tries to teach tolerance and yet the problem with that is there is always a culture left out and it creates divisions. And it happens in the democratic countries where decomocracy wants a safe place for other cultures and yet the problem is that when they come into our country they may fight against the nations efforts of democracy. What will happen to the immigrant and loyal citizen when the country asks for support? The immigrant may become exclusive and promote their own culture for political power.

There is allot of debate on muticulturalism today. I am going to deal with the mission part of the multiculturalism. Every culture has the sin of idols and selfishness. We need to be on guard of the evil in cultures and allways look for God and teach God to cultures. Ambleside Online does a wonderful job of teaching about culture and showing the children God and evil in each culture. For instance when studying Natives we can learn from them how they used Gods earth but we don't need to except their worship of the earth.

Multiculturalism started in Genesis where one man brought forth many cultures. We are to be fruitful and multiply on the earth. Multiculturalism is an expression of our mandate on earth to spread the gospel. But it also a curse where at the tower of babel people rebelled against God where they wanted one culture. God made a diverse culture to spread His Word. How do we do that? Paul is an example on how to approach multiculturalism. We need to understand the culture and the language so we can speak their language literally and spiritually. In the Old Testament the Jews were being over taken by the Egyptians and then the Babylonians and the growth of the Roman empire. The prophet Jeremiah instructed them to keep their traditions and rituals and yet pray for freedom. The apostle Paul's method was different. He learned the other cultures rituals and traditions and hoped to save a few that way.


Today the cultures want us to respect their idol worship of self and we must not listen or adhere to that. We must still preach God's truth, Christ will tear down the walls of God's people ( jews) and Gntiles. Hitler wanted one race and it fell. God intervened. There will always be God's people and Gentiles. It was there from the beginning of time. Abraham was God's chosen race and we will always have a mandate of gathering His race.

Muliculturalism is here on earth and there has to be a right train of thought in this. We are not here to be one but to spread God's Word. There are different ideas out there on multiculturalism and we need to have the right motive. We can talk of the pros and cons of multiculture or we can talk of our mandate. We must remember that God's Word is the ultimate authority.