Harbor City Church to host seminar on book

The Harbor City Church’s members are invited to attend The Beautiful Community to learn about unity in cultural diversity in the church. (Photo taken from the official website of Harbor City Church)

Harbor City Church invites its congregation to attend the seminar about the book, The Beautiful Community, with the author himself, Dr. Irwyn Ince, on Aug. 13, Saturday.

The church’s website announced that this seminar would allow members to know the reasons for divisions in the church’s community. They added that the workshop would also share some helpful ways for becoming a church demonstrating God’s beauty.

Harbor City Church encouraged its members to join them as they learned biblical and theological basics of truth. The website added that attending this seminar could also discover valuable ways to be witnesses of Christ that could give glory to God.

Pursuing Beautiful Community

The same website revealed that this study centers on knowing that God is what genuine beauty means. As further noted, Harbor City Church said they are designed in God’s image to have a wonderful community united despite diversity.

Besides, the Bible is rich with tools needed to destroy dividing walls within the church, as the church mentioned.

They added that the Scriptures offer guidelines for people. So they could walk towards purity and reconciliation.

According to the website, society is becoming more divided. It is because people cannot overcome the challenges of differences. The church has been influenced by this situation, as further explained.

Harbor City Church motivated its members to nurture spiritual practices. They said it could help them achieve a fantastic community.

Through this cultivation, the church added that it could remove the “ugliness of disunity.” It could also give healing to the damaged humanity.

Helpful for Believers

The Modern Reformation website revealed its feedback on the book “The Beautiful Community” by Ince. It noted that the high-quality book could give hope and help Believers think deeply on diversity-related issues.

The book could also help them understand the unity of the church.

The website also stated that Ince created a bridge for those Christians who wants to be in the presence of God’s “multi-ethnic kingdom.”

In addition, they noted that Ince is aware of the conservative world of evangelical Protestantism. It is because they said he is a Presbyterian pastor and a denominational leader.

Also, he understands and experiences of an African-American citizen.

The website emphasized that Ince also encountered racism in the past.

Christians Need Help for Unity

As further discussed on the same website, Believers in this generation and time need help. So they could establish a unified church ethnicity.

According to the website, most Christians, mainly pastors, are uncertain about introducing a biblical and constructive discussion on division-related issues.

As further explained, most Believers still wonder how they could call for unity in Christ. They want to do this without being offensive and foolish to others.

They added that some still do not know how to share God’s words on racism without conforming to the world’s pattern, opposite to the “orthodox theology.”

Ince’s Reflection

Additionally, the website mentioned that the book The Beautiful Community is Ince’s reflection of his story. In this book, he reflects on his life growing up in Brooklyn.

He also wrote about his suffering from racial prejudice and how beautiful diversity is.

In this book, Ince also stressed how God moves in keeping him intact in the Black church. This place is where he experienced transformation through Jesus, as added on the website.