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2016: Not “Business as Usual”
[…] a rethink of how expatriate Christians serve in China? I tend to agree with Swells that what we’re experiencing is the latter, particularly in view of the new policy environment and its affect both upon foreigners and upon Chinese Christians whom they seek to serve. Events over the past year suggest that what’s ahead […]
Responding to Restrictions on Children’s Ministry
[…] kindergartens, Christian-run private schools, homeschool networks, and online programs hosted abroad have all become options for parents seeking to impart a biblical worldview to their children. With new restrictions on religious activities, these options may become less viable in the future. Already churches in some provinces have been told to cease children’s programs. How […]
From Doing to Paving the Way
In part two of this series we looked at the transition from leading to modeling. For many foreign organizations, China’s new Overseas NGO Law is hastening this transition. Duties that had been the responsibility of foreign workers must be passed to local colleagues as the role of foreign leaders is redefined. On the other […]
Faces of Christian Leadership in China
[…] God is raising up a variety of Christian leaders in China today. Luis Bush and I look further at this changing face of Christian leadership in China in China’s Next Generation: New China, New Church, New World, available in PDF format from ChinaSource or on Amazon. Image credit: More People, by Mike Beltzner, via Flickr
The Chinese Church’s Shifting Battleground
[…] a fair degree of space to maneuver as they carry out the work of the church. The enemy, still seen as ultimately spiritual, is now attacking in new ways as the benefits to the church that have accompanied urbanization – access to material resources, greater freedom of thought and expression, and new options for […]
Who’s at the Table?
[…] discerning what God has put before them to do and how he has uniquely gifted them to serve. Making this shift requires slowing down. It requires a new mindset. It is humbling—particularly if one’s work has been seen as successful—to recognize that this assistance may not be appropriate in the long term, and that […]
Enduring Friendship
[…] wear a friendship pin displaying the respective flags of the two countries as a symbol of the positive relations between China and the US. The friendship narrative promoted by many Christian visitors to China was supported by prevailing national narratives on both sides of the ocean. Within this larger shared political narrative, foreign Christians […]
ChinaSource Perspective
Viewing the Registered Church through Different Lenses
[…] control of the Communist Party (although it did serve this purpose), but was seen by its leaders as the only way forward for the church in the new era. With the outbreak of the Korean conflict, the stated desire to see a Chinese church independent of missionary control took on a decidedly political dimension. […]
The Changing Face of Political Leadership in China
[…] as he brought China out from the shadow of the Cultural Revolution and into the modern world. In a word, Deng focused on peaceful development, experimented with new economic models aimed at incentivizing China’s people, curbed population growth, nurtured a new generation of well-trained bureaucrats, and used China’s competitive advantages to engineer a new […]
Lead Article
How China’s Christians Can Heal China’s Environment
Vol. 11, No. 2
[…] pollution, and polluted water has sparked protests in cities and villages throughout the country. At the same time, Christianity is experiencing an unprecedented flourishing in China. The new Christian believers thus have an opportunity to help address the pollution and other environmental problems that are so harmful to many people in China. In this […]