Taking the gospel message into another culture requires culturally integrating it, without misrepresentation, into that specific culture. Bentley looks at six different aspects involved in contextualizing the gospel.
Because that’s how grief works. It is not just a once in a lifetime thing, it comes back at unexpected moments.
“He’s the Lamb! They always killed a lamb at that time! He died at that time. He’s the Lamb that died—but he came back to life!”
Hearing from the heart of a young, single, Christian woman ministering in China.
ResearchShare is a place where those in the ChinaSource community can share their research, projects, and academic papers.
Ambassadors for Christ's triennial Chinese Mission Convention was a great way to close out 2020.
We know contextualization is important, but not everyone comes at it in the same way.
We will all remember where we were and what we were doing in 2020—but will we remember what we were reading?
Merry Christmas! May you be filled with the joy of Jesus’ birth; the news that cannot be canceled.
While social service has long been part of missionary work in mainland China, today a host of different factors are driving Chinese Christians to explore for themselves the place of humanitarian concerns within gospel ministry. For a growing number of local Christians, loving one’s neighbor through acts of service is rapidly becoming an indispensable aspect of Christian witness. This essay will first explore the role of social service in the history of mission in China before analyzing its place in the ministry of the contemporary Chinese church.
How might Christians from one honor-shame culture effectively serve cross-culturally in another honor-shame culture?
The Perspectives class in Mandarin will be offered in a virtual format this January.