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As a multiethnic millennial navigating the complexities of our culture's racial divisions, Eli Bonilla Jr. explores how we can experience more human connection through a God-led identity, fully owning our unique distinctions and celebrating others'.
About the author
Eli Bonilla Jr. is the father to three beautiful children: Novalee Grace, Ezekiel Eliezer Rafat, Eden Isabella, and husband to Alexis Gabriella Bonilla. He is a speaker and published author with HarperCollins-Thomas Nelson with his first book, Mixed. He serves several national networks in varied roles. He is the Next Gen Regional cochair for North America with Empowered21, he is the National Next Gen Director for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), and the Regional Youth Director for the Church of God Gulf-Rio Grande Region. His full-time responsibilities are with Abundant Life Church in San Antonio, TX as a pastor on staff.
Summary
Many of us feel like we don't belong or are out of touch with our true identity. Discover how you can gain a stronger sense of who God made you to be and step confidently into every relationship, fully owning your unique distinctions and celebrating the differences of others.
Group dynamics can be based on the simplest forms of physical and cultural distinctions, and those who don't quite fit the mold of a group can feel like outsiders. The reality is none of us fit into a box. We're all unique with a mixed background—socially, culturally, experientially. For some of us, like Eli Bonilla Jr., we are also mixed ethnically. No one person is an identical copy of anyone else.
In Mixed, Eli questions the basis of unity and inclusion and explores the multiple components of our identity, discovering how they can all be reconciled for God's purpose as we reflect His image. Mixed will lead you to:
- find peace with the complexity within yourself,
- understand yourself more deeply so you can relate to others,
- experience more human connection through a God-led identity, and
- develop greater empathy, celebrate cultures without creating division, and fight for people in the margins.
Eli will remind you that God made you the way you are for good reason, and you belong wherever He says you belong. Pairing personal stories with biblical teaching, Eli will inspire you not to hold back from others but to confidently share the fullness of who you are, and to love, celebrate, and unite with people who are not just different, but beautifully complex.
