Globalization - Part I

Globalization impacts all of us.

Whether your shoes, your computer, your fruit, your car, or some other thing is made outside the US, or you watched the news and saw live coverage from other cities around the world, you are impacted by globalization.

Recently I've had the opportunity to interact with some scholars regarding the topic of globalization and the migration of people around the globe. This issue is not altogether new because people have traveled to other countries for centuries, but it is a bit different in that information and people can move quicker to other parts of the world than they ever could in the past.

Globalization impacts our ministry.

As we move towards Uruguay and then Spain, we must track trends. People are moving from everywhere to everywhere. Chinese, Moroccans, Uruguayans, Romanians, and others are moving to Spain. How should we approach ministry in an increasingly diverse mixture of people? Do we plant homogenous or heterogenous churches? Can we even speak with any degree of confidence about who Spaniards are and what makes them distinct amongst so much diversity?

As you can see I have many more questions than answers. They need to be asked. I'd like input of others and more research done in terms of how to answer them though.

What a joy it is going to be to see the current realities play out and the upcoming changes that we don't even realize are coming yet.