Audio by artist paul_metzger

Many churches foster race and class divisions by appealing to consumer appetites.  This presentation challenges consumerism's fostering of ethnic and economic segregation in the evangelical church, and offers a theologically grounded call to restructure the church's passions and practices in view of a nobler, all-consuming vision of the Christian faith.

Reordering Church Outreach: Overcoming Market Forces, Building Beloved Community

This workshop focuses on ways that the church can overcome market forces that foster race and class divisions. Rather than seeing the church as a static location dispensing spiritual goods and services, it envisions the church as a relocating, reconciling and redistributing force that is active in re-binding the broken world and seeking the peace of the city.

By Paul Metzger