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What does it mean to be a multicultural church in the context of COVID-19?

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Village Church is a multicultural community in Christ.  Ethnically, we are one of the most diverse churches in Oregon, but our commitment to cultural diversity also extends across generations, from citizens to immigrants to refugees, and across multiple languages. We are not just multiethnic, but multicultural.  This commitment is not something accidental or without purpose, […]

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Gratitude

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I’ve been thinking a lot about gratitude lately. I think gratitude – thankfulness, appreciation, value – has a very underrated foundational role in virtue and vice. Legalism, the kind of self-righteous Christianity that is all about control, guilt, power, pride and perfection, really has beneath it a sick and hollowed out sense of gratitude.  Grace

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