ZGBriefs | November 16, 2017
...Can’t Forget if You’ve Lived in China (November 14, 2017, Small Town Laowai) If I could make your screen scratch-n-sniff, I would, and you’d be instantly transported back to the...
...Can’t Forget if You’ve Lived in China (November 14, 2017, Small Town Laowai) If I could make your screen scratch-n-sniff, I would, and you’d be instantly transported back to the...
...read the book of Job. I realized I had never understood the book before. I did not know Job’s grief and indignation, and I felt that his two friends made...
...matters is that they are “in Christ.” It can never be right to look at a local church and think, “I don’t need you,” or “I don’t belong with you.”...
...life—the relationship between parent and child, . . . I met some autistic children last year when I was doing charity work. When I read the script, I cried, I hope...
...deep spiritual and moral crisis. What, then, do Chinese people need? They need honesty, trust, integrity and faith. Chinese people need higher moral standards, they need to obey the laws,...
...I’ve purposefully walked more, finding new streets to get me to the same destination. I’ve asked people more questions. I’ve become more aware of China’s economic and social issues so...
...revivalism and earthy nationalism rooted in a glorified rendering of China’s ancient past. Liberal-minded members of China’s middle class bridle at that ideology. But others, including farmers and blue-collar workers,...
...the soft sleeper car and found my berth. I had decided that, even though I speak fluent Chinese, on this trip I would hunker down with my book and pretend...
...not have much knowledge of China at the time, but I believed China was going to be significant in the next season of world history. As I look back, I...
...cities seem to have a harder time than those in the countryside, suggesting that China’s urban “house churches” would need to lay low and remain small if they were going...
...third is the needs of the church. For myself, I came to the Lord when I was young, when I was in junior high school [in China]. By that time...
...I need to come to worship God. When I go to church . . . this is what I might say to them: We need to learn to go from...