For ChinaSource readers, the story invites us to remember Chinese Christianity not as a simple one-directional story of Western missionaries going to China, but as a deeply interconnected history of receiving, translating, indigenizing, and sending.
May we carefully nurture these cherry-blossom seeds in the sweet potato field until, in the love of Christ, they flower and bear fruit, becoming gospel pioneers who will help shape the future of both Taiwan and Japan.
The thought patterns formed by long-term, deeply embedded atheistic education and scientism remain a major epistemological threshold that Chinese diaspora Christians must cross in evangelism, as well as a stronghold that apologetics must address.
In the era of new media, every Christian is not only a user of media products but also a creator and distributor of content.
I hope this book introduces Nee to a new generation of readers—not as a perfect figure, and not as a saint beyond criticism, but as a serious Christian thinker whose work deserves careful attention.
We must move toward a global dialogue where the Western scholar, the African pastor, the Asian theologian, and the Latin American activist sit together as equals.
Salvation, he came to see, is not the story of human beings climbing upward by their own strength. It is the story of one who is willing to descend for the lost.
If we are to truly appreciate theology from a worldwide perspective, surely we need to engage theology in other languages.
A decade ago, there was a groundswell of discussion and activity among global Christian organizations around how best to partner with China’s emerging mission…
When people who have long been studying, teaching, pastoring, and serving in different contexts finally sit in the same room, what becomes visible?
My experience of the election and grace of the Triune God—the providential care of the Heavenly Father, the guarding of the Holy Spirit, and the guidance of the Holy Son—is truly a testament to what John Newton described as Amazing Grace in his hymn: “grace appeared the hour I first believed.”
We must explore what kind of ideology the Chinese church, which developed in tandem with such a turbulent history, would adopt as it enters the church, serves the church, and envisions the future.