The Chinese Church and the Global Body of Christ
...church, I received Christ as my savior. That very night I knew how I should spend my life. In 1992 I quit my job in a foreign company in Beijing...
...church, I received Christ as my savior. That very night I knew how I should spend my life. In 1992 I quit my job in a foreign company in Beijing...
...all the churches that have a Chinese congregation. I preached the first night, and when I gave the invitation almost everyone raised their hands. I thought my invitation had not...
...Key actors include the traditional American campus ministries and ministries to internationals, all of which have become increasingly focused on Chinese graduate students and visiting scholars—the most responsive among all...
...pastors in those churches. I kept a journal in which I recorded information from my interviews and descriptions of what I saw and experienced of China along the way. Questions...
...should be discipled by more seasoned Christians also rings a bell. I began teaching Sunday School to younger teens when I was in high school. There were few older adults...
...constitution and democratic capitalism, and to celebrate American exceptionalism, a “a city on a hill and a light for the nations.” Is this Christianity with American characteristics? In Europe, of...
When I shared with friends, neighbors, and fellow church members that I was moving to China after college graduation to teach English and serve with a Christian sending organization, their response was...
...and that country’s interest in him. Just One Book (June 1, 2015, ChinaSource Blog) A few weeks back, I did something rather mean—I wrote to a dozen or so friends...
...everyday religious practice, which in turn only alarmed the authorities more. Here is what I saw as I walked around the city of Urumqi. Cut Chives: The Year in Pictures (December...
...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...
...I reread it. Id read it so many times that Id become numb to its content. This time, I tried to treat it as political comment, and read it with...
...quality, significance, and accessibility. Therefore, please take no offense if I did not include a (your) book. You haven’t “lost face,” even if I’m not giving you face in this post. Opening...