The Church in China: Living in Babylon
...the church for several years. The police took charge and commanded everyone to provide their name, phone number, address, and ID card. Then a leader from the Religious Affairs Bureau...
...the church for several years. The police took charge and commanded everyone to provide their name, phone number, address, and ID card. Then a leader from the Religious Affairs Bureau...
...to reflect: How can the church be more capable of local communication, using the language that local people can understand to communicate the gospel? How can the church do theology...
...funding.25 The Overseas NGO Law allowed the Chinese government to apply strict controls on foreign nonprofits and cut their financial ties with local nonprofits. Many foreign nonprofits subsequently decided to...
...expatriate mission workers and the subsequent departure of large numbers of expatriate ministry workers from China. Altogether, this now pervasive nationalist messaging means that for a growing number of the...
...October last year. A small number of our people are also associated with the CM2030 movement. People often ask us if our organizations are in competition with each other. We...
...us on the ChinaSource team is speaking at a church, attending a conference, or just talking on the phone to someone at a partnering organization, the question arises, “How many...
...pleasant to share these precious moments while they last. But while watching your nieces run to and fro across an expansive living room floor, you notice your cell phone has...
...themselves and social harmony. For the true scholars and philosophers, whom I call the erudite, the desire for cultivation of the good extends to grand proportions that can be understood...
...returnees to the homeland, or the availability of local mission resources which may be in the form of local partner churches, the local majority world Christian diaspora presence, or other...
...have learned through their participation in this endeavor. Pete Ward, Introducing Practical Theology: Mission, Ministry, and the Life of the Church (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2017). In this introductory...
...the focus on an unreached Chinese people group in migration, helping to strengthen Chinese diaspora churches, mobilizing local host populations to reach the Chinese diaspora, or perhaps mobilizing the Chinese...
...sociologists call “middle range theory.” On the one hand, we do not need to construct any grand theological theory and narrative immediately; on the other hand, we do need to...