Cultural Blind Spots

Years ago, I wrote in my journal about three cultural blind spots I found in multi-cultural congregations. 1. One was the “unseeing eye”. For example, someone puts a roster together, but they only see those of their own cultural group. 2. Another blind spot is difficult to describe. I might call it the “worldly eye”. Here, people don't see God's activity in the lives of other cultures. They seem to think they are spiritually dead. And 3. is the failure to understand that different cultures deal with deliberations differently. In particular, Africans may have a meditative way with them, while people of European stock are more aggressive. OBSERVATION: This is not to say that these are all the blind spots -- but they are more obvious ones.