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Partnering with Churches in China
Toward a New Paradigm
[…] ways as the believers outside China know that their Chinese brothers and sisters are praying for them as well. Sharing Experiences Christians in China are launching into new areas such as education, marriage and family ministry, service to their communities, and reaching non-Chinese both domestically and beyond China’s borders. In many cases there are […]
From Here to There
The Straight-Line Fallacy
[…] church narrative, for example, envision a China in which Christians are free to exercise their faith without the restraints imposed upon them by a hostile government. They promote advocacy as the means to achieve this desired future, believing that political and economic pressure will eventually force the Chinese party-state to change its tact in […]
An Effective Bridge
[…] China. How to learn alongside China’s future theologians as they write dissertations in China or abroad, assume faculty position in official or unofficial theological training institutions, launch new online journals, engage with fellow academics on Chinese university campuses, and publish articles for a global audience? How to encourage a new generation of pastors whose […]
A Meeting of Minds
20 Years of Publishing ChinaSource
[…] professor Dr. Mel Lorentzen, who had served as associate director of The Billy Graham Center, facilitated the gathering. Mel steered the conversation toward the need for a new English-language journal to examine China’s growing global role from a Christian perspective, and the idea for the Journal was born. Julia Grosser, who was serving at […]
The Pilgrim Principle
Remembering Andrew Walls
[…] view of the spread of Christianity over the past 2,000 years, along with his prescient observation of the church’s southward shift during the past century, introduced a new vocabulary for talking about the global church as “polycentric.” As K.C. Wendell Tan of the Biblical Graduate School of Theology in Singapore noted, this understanding “has […]
The Urban Paradox: Together, Alone
[…] face with the human reality underlying the most massive migration in the history of the world. On a Saturday morning on the edge of town where another new suburb is taking shape, bleary eyed peasants peeked out from their tarpaulin-covered home under a railway bridge. Across the street cars maneuvered into the parking lot […]
Beyond the Crosses
Wealth, Stewardship and the Wenzhou Church
[…] of one observer, because of the favorable social and political conditions, Competition to build churches had almost become the order of the day. As soon as a new church was built, it was torn down and rebuilt again! Before the new building was even filled with people, they began to build an even bigger […]
Editorials
Facing Transitions
Life transitions—whether coming to China for the first time, leaving after a lifetime of ministry, moving to a new city or taking on a new assignment—can be a gateway to discovery or the death of a dream. Often they are both. In this issue we take a 360-degree look at transitions, viewing them through […]
3 Questions: Migration and Public Theology in China
[…] this referring to? The title of the book The Chinese Exodus alludes to how ancient Israelites broke free from Pharaoh’s old regime, only to find themselves in new forms of spiritual slavery. Rural migrants in China now have residential mobility to freely move around and live in the cities, but in their freer life […]
Defying Western Expectations
[…] and every indication is that this history—which is about far more than numerical growth—has not yet run its course. China’s reforming churches are not drowning in the new tide but rising on it. They are embracing the opportunities they see in the new challenges they face and finding creative ways to meet the needs […]