Though Chinese house churches experience ongoing and intensifying restrictions, they have begun to develop sending structures to support cross-cultural missionaries. Even churches that have been forced to close are still finding ways to support missionaries that they have sent.
Is AI a threat to be feared, a tool to be leveraged, or both? How do we embrace its potential for the great commission without compromising the integrity of our message or the essence of our humanity?Â
How may the perverted order of humanity mirrored in AI be rectified and restored? It is at this point that we are motivated to explore how God’s grace can enable us to perform the image of God with our ectype, that is, AI.
These eminent thinkers represent and have shaped two major traditions—Christianity and Confucianism. Hence, their wisdom may offer valuable guidance for Christians living and serving in a Confucian cultural context.
AI will not replace humans in tasks that demand creativity, generalizability, and abstraction. In most scenarios, AI will serve as an enabling tool to assist humans in decision-making.
My encouragement in this AI era is to empower the coworkers, the Christians, the young Christians, and say it's okay for them to try things out, even if it's not conventional.
This is the mandate for AI. We must test its capabilities, hold fast to the applications that genuinely advance the gospel, and abstain from any use that compromises truth or harms people.
2084 and the AI Revolution is not simply a book about the dangers of technology, but a profound exploration of what it means to be human in a world that increasingly seeks to forget.
This new ChinaSource Journal issue focusing on AI comes at an important time, where the practical benefits of AI are being weighed against important ethical and theological issues that come with every new technology.
Explore AI resources across various fields.
Based on a review of over 160 years of modern church history in China, the author takes an optimistic view of the current situation and firmly believes that God is preparing present-day China to embrace another great revival of Christianity—hereafter referred to as "China’s Next Revival."
All missionary children inherit a legacy of living in a third culture and being home everywhere and nowhere at the same time.