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Citation Information Stewart, J. H. (2017). Building a multicultural church: The importance of relationships. Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies. Pasadena, California. Chapter-By-Chapter Review This writer chose to review the dissertation by Stewart (2017) titled Building a multicultural church: The importance of relationships. The reason this dissertation was chosen had to do with the fact that the subject of Stewart’s (2017) paper is in line with the dissertation topic this writer is interested in researching, which is Christian leadership in a multicultural environment. Introduction and Chapter One Review In the initial chapter the author presents his research topic by discussing the background and the rational …show more content…

4). Here is where one begins to notice a lack of focus on the part of the researcher. If one examines the title and the purpose statement they seem to be at odds, at least in some ways. The stated title has to do with building a multicultural church and how relationships are a key part of doing that (e.g., Building a multicultural church). Here one sees that the title is in some ways misleading because it promises to instruct one in the actual building of a multicultural church while the purpose is geared towards those who are already leading in a multicultural church setting. The person seeking to know how to build a multicultural church is in a different place than the leader of a multicultural church who is seeking to build relationships and community. There is a certain amount of overlap and the two ideas are related, but there are differences to be …show more content…

For example, at one point the author states that “The semi-structured interviews with key pastors of selected multicultural churches in the GTA proved to be enlightening” and goes on to state that “The content of qualitative information received was exceptional” (Stewart, 2017, p. 88). These types of comments lead to the conclusion that while there was a certain amount of information that the researcher anticipated the outcome of, there were certain surprising aspects that came to

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