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20 Things a New Chinese Pastor Needs to Learn About Ministry
Christians in China today are able to share relatively easily about ministry on social media. Pastors’ personal blogs are one unique vantage point into church life in China. In this article, Chen Fengsheng, a Three-Self pastor in Wenzhou, provides budding pastors with timely advice on how to prepare for a healthy pastoral ministry. He gives “twenty realities” of ministry life that will help set up fresh seminary graduates for the pastorate.
The Next Decade of the Church in China
[…] perspective on biblical teachings, and a balanced view of various Christian doctrines. Emphasizing these two theologies is crucial for the needs of pulpit ministry, as they can promote academic rigor and enhance the church’s preaching ministry. The pulpit ministry in the church in China is extremely weak. The pulpit is where the Bible and […]
Which Chinese Bible Should I Recommend People Read?
[…] In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pastoral_Bible_(Chinese)&oldid=637046232 Wikipedia. (2015, June 18). Chinese Union Version. In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinese_Union_Version&oldid=667447748 Which Chinese Bible Should I Recommend People Read? was originally published on Thriving Turtles on June 20, 2016. It was subsequently updated, most recently on August 17, 2018. It is reprinted here with permission.
It Starts with “Nǐ Hǎo”
Cross-Cultural Ministry in the Most Unexpected Place
This experience reminds me that God often uses the ordinary to do the extraordinary. Ministry doesn't require a pulpit. Sometimes it begins with a simple “Nǐ hǎo.”
An Official Code of Conduct for China’s Pastors
[…] more vigilant in recognizing and preventing the capability of foreign infiltration as well as to stand on guard against cults, heresies, and extremism. In addition, the document promotes mutual respect and harmony between different religions as well as inter-religious dialogue and cultural exchanges. It also demands that staff conform to churches' rules and regulations […]
Sharing the Gospel: Franchise or Indigenization?
[…] my baby-sized A&W root beer cup that dates to the late 1950s. Sometimes after Sunday evening church services my family would take the ten-minute drive from our 200-person farm town to a nearby real town for a mug of frosty root beer. That was my first exposure to a fast-food franchise. A rarity in […]
Crossing Cultures: Perspective and Spiritual Maturity
[…] dumplings taste pretty good too! Darrell L. Whiteman, <em>Crossing Cultures with the Gospel: Anthropological Wisdom for Effective Christian Witness</em> (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic-Baker Publishing Group, 2024), Kindle edition, loc. 417. This statement is derived from Bobby Clinton’s findings that “The difference between leaders and followers is perspective. The difference between leaders and […]
Ministering Cross-Culturally: A 150 Percent Person
[…] of every missionary, and possibly every Christian, should be to become at least a 150 percent person.”17 Jesus Christ was perfectly formed for ministering cross-culturally. He was 200 percent person, 100 percent God, and 100 percent human, fully attuned to God his Father and fully aligned with his native culture. John’s transcendent language in […]
Crossing Cultures: Capacity and Insight
[…] experiences represent small or incremental insights. However, every so often, those incremental insights come together in life-changing moments of clarity when everything changes and stays changed forever. 20 The apostle Peter’s lifelong journey toward cross-cultural ministry maturity began when he was in his late twenties and stepped out of his boat in response to […]
Crossing Cultures: Missio Dei and Missionary Formation
[…] is a theme in Bobby Clinton’s Leadership Emergence Theory, popularized in <em>The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development</em> by Robert Clinton, 2012. Genesis 15:1-6, ESV, my excerpts and parentheses. All biblical quotes in the blog are taken from the ESV. Genesis 17. Genesis 18:17-33. Note especially verse 33: […]