...of church organizational structure is concerned, many churches today need to return to a proper theology of the church. They need to build biblical churches with standard church governance that...
...Chinese. The heart of the book is the extensive interview material, but those intimate and personal stories are carefully positioned in a well-built structure. The book consists of twelve chapters,...
...need of returnees. It involves “middle men” and “receivers.” (The terms used need to be unified for better understanding and communication among organizations and individuals. In this blog, we will...
...I told him I worked on the 23rd floor of Jiangxin Building. He asked, “What kind of work do you do?” I told him I was a preacher. “Well, preach...
Outsourced Children: Orphanage Care and Adoption in Globalizing China by Leslie K. Wang. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. This book is a must-read for anyone involved with orphaned or...
...himself to me—many of my Chinese neighbors became Christians and joined the church.” “I was a prodigal son,” Pastor Fang Xiaojun says of his calling. When I was fourteen, I...
...Augustine stated that “All truth is God’s truth,” and in I’Ching Thomas’s book, Jesus: The Path to Human Flourishing, the author takes this to heart. She demonstrates through the ancient...
...published this book of essays on his experience. This was the first book that I read that caused me to smack my head and say “I wish I’d written that.”...
...Rise and Decline of Rural Church in China China once saw a fast growing rural church. The country's 2010 Blue Book of Religions estimated Protestants in China number about 23 million,...
...I first joined, I had a heroic sense of pride. I felt that I had given up a lot in terms of material possessions, but on a spiritual sense I...
...related to my family history. Rural-urban inequality is a part of the reality that I grew up with. When I studied abroad, I began to realize that the Chinese hukou...
...invited said, “I’m not interested in the Bible.” She hung around the edge of the conversation. She didn’t want to sit down, didn’t want to hold the book but she...