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Crossing Cultures: Ethnocentric Conversion
[…] with the greatest blessing ever given. Ministering cross-culturally requires what Darrell Whiteman calls ethnocentric conversion, the kind of transformation Peter experienced in Acts 10 (See below: Whiteman 2018; Whiteman 2022; and Whiteman 2023). The Apostle Peter’s ethnocentric conversion exploded into fullness through an unanticipated personal interaction with Cornelius, a Gentile military officer who lived […]
Crossing Cultures: Theology versus theology
[…] Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 1986. Kindle Edition, locations 2414–2843. Darrell L. Whiteman, “Contextualization: The Theory, the Gap, the Challenge,” <em>International Bulletin of Missionary Research</em> 21, no. 1 (1997): 2–7. Jay W. Moon and A. Moreau. <em>Intercultural Discipleship: Learning from Global Approaches to Spiritual Formation</em>. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2017. Kindle edition, p. 36.
Editorials
Returnee Ministry: Reflecting on Developments
[…] Chinese students studying abroad dropped (it is now rising again), the number of Chinese students and scholars returning to China has remained high—around 700,000 per year. In 2021, the total number of returnees to China exceeded one million. There are no clear statistics on how many of these returnees are Christians, but assuming the […]
Crossing Cultures: Table Manners
Ministering cross-culturally is critical for fruitful missionary engagement. As the Chinese missionary movement matures and expands and goes where no man or woman of the gospel has gone before, cross-cultural ministry praxis will become increasingly critical.
Crossing Cultures: Conveying the Gospel
[…] Father; cleansing focuses on God’s holiness and purity; deliverance recognizes God’s power and liberation. Source: Craig Ott, “Global Church Planting Workbook and Training Guide,” Seminar Lecture Notes, 2017. Each of these metaphors is biblically true, and each metaphor can be enriched and made more cross-culturally welcoming by grasping the biblically true worldview nuances embraced […]
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Chinese Christian Returnees in Late Qing Dynasty and Early Republic
Contributions and Difficulties
[…] in 13 provinces of China and Southeast Asia.19 In that era, many Chinese intellectuals paid special attention to education to save the country from perishing and to promote the transformation of China into a modernized country. Yan Yangchu (Y. C. James “Jimmy” Yen, 晏阳初; Yale University, 1918; Princeton University, 1921) initiated the national mass […]
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Using New Media for Digital Evangelism on Chinese Cyberspace
[…] before the new regulations. Today, many Chinese Christians are still using WeChat to share biblical content and evangelistic articles—at least links if not full texts. Some use coded words and pinyin initial abbreviations in text to get around the censorship (e.g., “JH” for church and “JDT” for Christians). Chinese Christians organize and share information […]
Diaspora Missions Today
Challenges and Opportunities for the Overseas Chinese Church
[…] to Asia and Europe to preach, train, and do short-term missions, serving Chinese diaspora churches. At the same time, my work has also included cultural bridging to promote cooperation between Chinese churches and non-Chinese Christian organizations. This issue of CSQ prompted me to think: How should Chinese diaspora churches seize the opportunity and meet […]
Crossing Cultures: Enlightenment and the Middle Kingdom
[…] To give some perspective, a person can survive, barely, on 1 pound of rice per day, 365 pounds per year. Eight thousand pounds of rice could sustain 20 human lives for a year. California’s rice lands produce enough food to sustain 4 billion people for a year. That productivity is a triumph of Enlightenment-enabled […]