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Dr. Ernest H. Jones is in the sixteenth year of his pastorate at The Greenwood Baptist Church of Brooklyn, NY, a multiethnic congregation. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the New York Theological Seminary; serves as chair of New York Methodist Hospital Pastoral Care Advisory Committee, and on the Board of General Ministries of American Baptist Churches USA, where he is ABC USA’s representative to the National Council of Churches of Christ Convening Table on Interreligious Relations and to Shoulder to Shoulder Interfaith Campaign confronting anti-religious discrimination.

Multi-Cultural Ministry: A Model for Cooperation
February 16, 2015 – 2:40 pm | Comments Off on Multi-Cultural Ministry: A Model for Cooperation
Multi-Cultural Ministry: A Model for Cooperation

by Ernest H. Jones

In his argument for choosing cooperation as a useful way to build and expand a ministry, Jones delves into a theory by author Alfie Kohn whose thesis was that competition is not innate or organic but often a failing strategy. Using cooperation as a tactic was Paul’s successful way of expanding Christ’s ministry.