Leaving China, Entering Mission?
Chinese churches are going abroad—but are they truly entering mission?
Chinese churches are going abroad—but are they truly entering mission?
Ghost Month sets the table to invite wandering spirits to dine and be satisfied. The gospel announces something altogether different.
Prompted in part by Sam Ren’s recent article, “The Displaced Minority,” these brief vignettes offer glimpses of ordinary Christian life in Mainland China that often remain unseen.
Have we prioritized certain Great Commission activities to the neglect of other less tangible yet no less essential aspects of what it means to glorify God in the world?
What does it mean to do theology as a person of mixed linguistic, cultural, and geographic heritage who honors both tradition and context?
Organized by Olive Bridge, a cross-cultural research and dialogue platform, the event was titled "The Bridge Endures—John Leighton Stuart at 150: A Commemorative Gathering of Historical Readings and Dialogue."
What I sensed God calling me to do was not to leave the church, but to help fill the gap I saw there.
Sometimes another tradition gives us language for something we have encountered in our own lives but have not yet been able to articulate clearly.
If AI has become the only place where we disclose our inner lives, we should consider whether our human relationships are in trouble.
Perhaps what I need is not another answer, but to remain with a passage of Scripture long enough for it to begin questioning me.
If the worldwide Chinese church creates a culture of "co-learning" and "co-leading" while "co-creating with God," what a wonderful symphony will it produce!
For the first time, we saw that ordinary believers could begin where they were and create connections between churches that had previously known little about one another.