1. Navigating the Maze: Setting an Intercultural agenda for your church
Church models
based on cultural dynamics
Mark Naylor

2. Monoethnic Monocultural
Key word:
Stability
Dangers:
sterility
irrelevance
obsolescence

3. Sister Churches Dangers: Stereotyping “us” / “them” Cooperation
Key word:
Cooperation
Significant
Commonality

4. Multiethnic Monocultural
Key word:
Integration
Dangers:
Perceived loss of cultural identity

5. Multiethnic Multicultural
Key word:
Accommodation
Dangers:
Fragmentation
Loss of culture
Dominance struggles
Time consuming

6. Intercultural Church Models
Increasingly homogeneous
Increasingly multicultural 1 2 3 4
Monoethnic
Monocultural
Sister
Churches
Multiethnic
Monocultural
Multiethnic
Multicultural