WHY DO WE DO WHAT WE DO ?

Why does Intercultural Network Carolina sponsor monthly events for Greenville/Spartanburg?

Why do we promote cross-cultural advancement of the Gospel & intercultural unity in Christ?

Because of the Biblical mandates for multi-ethnic ministry & missions.  EAN member Jim Goodroe has articulated these "Ten Commandments for Ethnic Ministry." Not copyrighted, they may be used freely for non-commercial purposes:

Ten Commandments for Ethnic Ministry

1. The ABRAHAMIC COVENANT (Genesis 12:1-3)
   Abraham is the father of God’s Old Testament covenant people (Rom.4:1) and His New Testament faith people (Rom.4:11-16). Since Abraham’s call in Genesis 12, God’s plan has been that His blessings through people who know Him will extend to all the peoples of the earth.
   (See: Cody Watson, The Two Rails of God’s Story, 2010, Xulon Press, 108pp.).
   
    
2. The AMITY to ALIENS (Lev.19:33-34; Deut.14:27-28)
   God’s people must befriend the aliens among us, loving them as ourselves. We were aliens & strangers spiritually (Eph.2:19). Our Pilgrim forefathers survived as immigrant aliens here in the New World because they were befriended by some Native Americans.
   
   
3. The DEUTERONOMIC DECLARATION (Deut.32:8)
   “When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.” God places peoples who do not know Him within reach of people who do.  (Links with #8, The MIGRATION EXPLANATION)
   
   
4. The PSALMIC PROCLAMATIONS (Psalm 2:8; 67:1-7; 86:9, etc.)
   Psalm 67 is the Bible in a nutshell, and the Abrahamic covenant in fulfillment.
   (For 79 citations in Psalms, see p.246, John Piper, Let the Nations Be Glad, 2003, Baker Academic).
   
    
5. The PROPHETIC PROMISES
   “The sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the Lord…I will bring… and make them joyful in My house of prayer…My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations” (Isa.56:6-7). “You shall call a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God” (Isa.55:5). “This gospel of the kingdom will be preached as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come” (Mt.24:14).
   
   
6. The GREAT COMMISSION (Mt.28:18-20; Mk.16:15; Lk.24:46-48; Jn. 20:21; Acts 1:8)
   Two of the five texts say to make disciples of all ethnicities (all nations in Mt.28:19 & Lk.24:47 translates the Greek panta ta ethne). Two of the five texts say do this starting where we are (Lk.24:47; Acts 1:8). Three of the four "mission zones" in Acts 1:8 were within walking distance of those who heard this from Jesus' lips.
   
   
7. The PENTECOST PROTOTYPE (Acts 2:5-11, 38-42)
   On the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit was sent, the church was born, and 3,000 internationals in one city were saved!
   
   
8. The MIGRATION EXPLANATION (Acts 17:24-27)
   God is sovereign over migration, and directs it so that people may seek Him.  (Links with #3, The DEUTERONOMIC DECLARATION)
   
   
9. The EPHESIANS EQUALIZATION (Eph.2:19-21)
   “No longer strangers & foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints & members of the household of God…being joined together…being built together for a habitation of God.”
   
   
10. The REVELATIONS RESULT (Rev.5:9; 7:9-10)
    “Redeemed out of every tribe & tongue & people & nation”(5:9)…”a great multitude” (7:9).