Brenda Salter McNeil: The VIBE Alliance

Brenda Salter McNeil wants to know, "Where's the other half of the Gospel?"

BRENDA SALTER McNEIL is an ordained minister, national speaker and founder of the church leadership coaching network, the VIBE Alliance

CONNECTION TO OUTREACH MAGAZINE: The March/April 2010 issue of Outreach magazine features McNeil on the cover and inside the pages in a feature-length article: The Outreach Interview. Read the complete interview »

BRENDA SAYS:

On the two sides of reconciliation: “You should have been told when you first came in that this is about being reconciled to God and being reconciled to others. It's like having gone to school and never been taught multiplication, and now you're in college and they're saying, ‘You don't know the fundamentals,’ and you're wondering, ‘Why didn’t someone teach me that way back then?’”

On planting multicultural churches: “Part of the problem is that so many church planters are in isolation and need to be part of a community. I think the day of the individual superstar church leader is over, and we're moving toward a day where collaboration is going to make these multicultural churches work.”

On why we are called to be reconcilers: “I think we were supposed to be a countercultural community. In a world that’s divided, where people tend to group themselves with people like them, the Christian community was supposed to be this group of people that by their very existence made the world take notice of a God who could bring this kind of unity.”

HOW TO LINK: Connect to Brenda at SalterMcNeil.com, TheVibeAlliance.com and Facebook

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BRENDA SALTER McNEIL: A powerful preacher, evangelist and a thought-leader with over 30 years of experience in the field of racial and ethnic reconciliation, Brenda Salter McNeil is the president and founder of Salter McNeil & Associates, a Christian company that partners with organizations to transform them into reconciling communities by producing inter-culturally competent leaders on college campuses, in churches and in organizations around the world. Dr. Salter McNeil earned her Bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University, a Masters of Divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a Doctorate of Ministry from formerly named Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, now Palmer Theological Seminary. She is the founder of the church leadership coaching network, the VIBE Alliance and author of A Credible Witness: Reflections on Power, Evangelism and Race.

BOOKS by or co-authored by Brenda Salter McNeil

A Credible Witness

The Heart of Racial Justice (with Rick Richardson)

 
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