Hearing from China’s Church
While hearing from the church in China is undoubtedly more difficult than it was even 10 years ago, God is still creating unexpected channels that connect believers the world over.
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Come and See: Welcoming 50,000 Youth
China is creating the avenues for people-to-people, education, and cultural exchanges. Christians should be among the first to respond to openings like this.
Reflections on Dr. Daryl Ireland’s Lecture and Its Implications for Chinese Christians Today
Dr. Ireland’s recent lecture has further enriched our understanding, shedding light on the interplay between media, religion, and society—a timely and thought-provoking topic. We delved deeply into Chinese Christian history and explored his unique take on social media.
Navigating Faith and Governance
Daniel's wholehearted sincerity and purity made him distinguishable among all officials. This purity of Christ's love in our hearts can also make our non-profit organizations stand out, even under governmental restrictions.
Crossing Cultures: Theology versus theology
Their critical contextualization of who belonged in Jesus’s kingdom, who were the real Christians, freed the gospel from ethnic cultural imprisonment, and opened the door to for an all-peoples Church.
Generation to Generation
People have never been so eager to hear about the gospel because their lives and hopes have never been so damped in the past four decades.
God Is on the Move, Part 2
In part two of “God Is on the Move,” we look back at the many ways Chinese believers supported one another and their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Resilience and Renewal
Hong Kong’s churches are navigating a difficult new season. Amid political change, emigration, and a growing “de-churched” generation, believers are wrestling with how to remain faithful in a rapidly changing city.
Home Is the Bridge to Our Hearts
Home and family are very vital topics to a Chinese person, often providing bridges to their heart’s desires and offering a way to present Christ as the way to give a perfect home and family—the home and family found in knowing him.
An Alternative to Being Marginalized
An outreach approach acceptable to the government and public interest will be a solution. The police can block a venue, but charity, merciful actions, and care for neighbors can gain societal support.
Collective Misunderstanding
Deeply committed Syrian Christians traveled thousands of miles to plant a church in China, enjoyed a season of imperial favor during which the gospel took root and spread, and succeeded in communicating the essential message of Christ’s suffering for the salvation of the world and his resurrection from the dead.
Crossing Cultures: Conveying the Gospel
Worldviews are extraordinarily resistant to change, and archetypical cultural and gospel metaphors shape how missionaries convey the gospel across cultural boundaries. That is why it is so important for Chinese missiologists to “understand and critically integrate” imported cultural and metaphor worldview presuppositions lest what they “staunchly affirmed as biblical may have had more to do with nurturing cultural mores…than with God’s eternal truth,” as Brent Fulton writes.