JOSUGA: JOS JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES

Arguments in scholarship and practice about models and methods of church planting and administration have been sharply divided along monocultural and multicultural perspectives. Most importantly, inevitable conflicts due to intercultural communication barriers have been suggested as grounds for strictly monocultural churches. However, in an increasingly globalised world, due to migration issues, among others, the global church is predisposed to 21st-century compatible multicultural contexts. This paper uses a literature research method to explore the concept of intercultural communication, its complexities, and cues in multicultural contexts to address communication barriers in multicultural churches. It analyses selected empirical case studies (secondary data) to propose an intercultural communicative framework on how Nigerian churches can handle intercultural communication barriers to foster truly cohesive multiethnic church communities. This paper argues that cross-cultural understanding through intercultural education and awareness prevents miscommunication that arises due to intercultural communication barriers in multicultural church contexts. 

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