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This five-week curriculum is designed to introduce teenagers to a biblical understanding of reconciliation. This biblical foundation will prepare them to be reconcilers in our world for the sake of the gospel. The curriculum is conversational in style and would work well in a small or medium-sized group. While the content could be customized for middle school students, older students may best understand and embrace the concepts.
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THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF EACH WEEK
Week 1: The Model of Reconciliation: Students will learn that having nonjudgmental cross-cultural conversations is a way to extend love and lead people toward unity through Christ.
Week 2: The Ministry of Reconciliation: Students will learn to view themselves as ministers of reconciliation and explore ways they can take action as Christ’s ambassadors.
Week 3: The Gospel of Reconciliation: Students will learn that God did whatever it took to reconcile us, and because of this, we can extend reconciliation to others.
Week 4: The Lesson of Reconciliation: Students will learn that God calls us to love everyone who crosses our path, regardless of anything we think may divide us.
Week 5: The Prayer for Reconciliation: Students will learn that Jesus desires for his followers to be united because having a common Lord and Savior is greater than anything that can divide us.
Recommendations for the Unify Curriculum:
The Unify Curriculum is a practical, biblical, and applicable tool that will equip youth leaders and students to facilitate much needed conversations to help build bridges across cultural divides. Dr. Sorber makes the material personable, spiritual and attainable. This work gives me hope that ambassadors of reconciliation can be equipped and activated to serve God in a racially and culturally divided world.
-Dr. David Anderson, Author, Founder of Gracism Global & Founding and Senior Pastor Bridgeway Community Church, Columbia, MD.
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It's not a foreign idea to teenagers that the world we're living in--the world they're living in--is splintered and fractured and tribal. And since unity with others is such a central calling to the church, the Unify curriculum is incredibly timely.
-Mark Oestreicher, The Youth Cartel
Research:
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MULTICULTURAL CHURCH ATTENDEES’ CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE AND RESPONSE TO RACISM
Abstract:
A division between races and cultures exists throughout American society. Most churches in America continue to meet separately along racial lines despite believing in the same God who calls his followers to unity in him. Multicultural churches, which are growing in number and size, seek to unify diverse groups of people around the gospel of Jesus Christ with the hope of bringing that unity to the world around them. The purpose of this quantitative research study is to examine if there is a relationship between multicultural church attendees' Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and response to racism. Four hundred twenty-nine multicultural church attendees participated in the study, completing the demographic survey and instruments used in the correlational analysis. The tools used were the Anti-Racism Behavioral Inventory (ARBI) and the Short Form Cultural Intelligence Survey (SFCQ). Findings indicated a positive monotonic relationship between CQ and anti-racism behaviors. Follow-up research is proposed to build on this study, determining the nature of the relationship and ultimately leading to how Cultural Intelligence and anti-racism behaviors can be best fostered in churches. Other research is needed to identify spirituality’s influence on multicultural church attendees’ CQ and anti-racism behaviors.
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