What Healthy Churches Ought to Look Like
A Three-self church pastor in Wenzhou writes about four practical concepts for developing healthy churches.
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A Three-self church pastor in Wenzhou writes about four practical concepts for developing healthy churches.
In today’s context, the church cannot focus solely on how to cope with the problem of persecution.
"In this age, saturated with postmodern and post-postmodern cultural symbols, if the church cannot pastor a community of artists with the gospel, then we lose a great opportunity for the gospel to dialogue with the culture."
As we face temptation, we must learn to deal with ourselves and put to death the “old man.” In doing so, we must not declare surrender so lightly—let us rather fight at all costs, and ask the Lord to increase our strength.
Many churches in China marked Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday with special worship services. Here are pictures from two of the services.
Chinese Christians are asking how they should respond to the new religious regulations. Here is one pastor's response.
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Li Yan—the head coach of the Chinese short track ice skating team who quietly prays during competition, “God is my stronghold, I have no fear.”
“I am finally baptized. I have peace believing in Jesus.”
Suggestions for further reading about contextualization and the Chinese church.
The temporary shift of church members from urban to rural and back to urban again during the Chinese New Year causes a Chinese Christian to reflect on the long-term challanges of China's urban migration.
What difficulties do youth in China face today? How do Chinese youth pastors tackle ministry challenges? And the frustrations?