American theology biting at its own arse:
Ameristians love to deny when being caught promoting American patriotism/nationalism = the Gospel, if not over the Gospel.
Thus, all these liberal progressivism, LGBT, BLM, etc. are just such theology biting back at their own asses.
Do we particularly need "non-white" ministers in NYC?
According to Michael Keller we do. Shown below at around @7:38 in the video.
I sensed a trouble with that. Not sure what's being implied: Are whites more interested in this ministry? If so why? Maybe they come from a more well off family background? @10:10 Michael mentioned that if you're not white it's harder to raise funds. Two more troubling things: why would being white be better at raising funds; why even bother to raise funds? Not that these are not true, but I believe it's not the right direction if favor of God is the goal. Of men perhaps. What about just learn of other cultures (for white ministers) in order to interact and love their cultures? Why the need of a gap...white to white, other diverse culture to its own, after all, that's how it looks now that you've made a demand for more non-white ministers, right?
Anyway, I'll just do some quick summary of this video as Tim Keller had some good points.
Keller: 2 challenges: 1. Evangelism, 2. Formation (followups)
All cultures/religions believe these 5:
God, moral absolutes, duty in identity, sin, afterlife
Now, all these 5 are opposed.
Keller: You cannot just say now "God loves you" anymore. Oh I can hear the fundamentalists like Janet Mefferd are going wild hearing this now.
Michael: it used to be the other side is mistaken. Now, it's the other side is evil. (I guess sounds like the influence of the Charismatics evangelism- if they don't believe, they are Satan possessed, they are evil.
Sounds to me like what they mean by "non-white" ministry can't get as much financial support because White has better platform for this, uncles aunties, etc. I guess they don't have the concept of just trusting God rather than relationships.
Keller: Astoria though has diversity, but they are not united. A church should change that.
Conclusion, despite my criticism of Redeemer, Tim Keller, they are still doing great works in the Gospel.