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Toward a Typology of Christian Leaders in China
[…] groups outside China, and some of these may have caused tension with other church networks. His challenge is to see that biblical literacy and doctrinal purity are promoted throughout the network by younger leaders in the face of false teaching by cults, and that these leaders are able to model and teach the practical […]
Book Reviews
Redeemed by Fire
The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China
Lian Xi, Redeemed by Fire: The Rise of Popular Christianity in Modern China. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2010. Available on Amazon. Reviewed by Brent Fulton Years ago a Western teacher was having a conversation with one of her students in China about their respective cultures. “You know what the difference is between you […]
More than Conquerors
[…] Christians in the registered church are being pushed toward an extreme form of nationalism with the Sinicization campaign and Patriotic Education Law, which officially took effect on New Year’s Day 2024. This law explicitly states, “The state encourages and supports religious groups, religious schools, and places of religious activities to carry out patriotic education, […]
The Chinese Church’s Shifting Battleground
[…] a fair degree of space to maneuver as they carry out the work of the church. The enemy, still seen as ultimately spiritual, is now attacking in new ways as the benefits to the church that have accompanied urbanization – access to material resources, greater freedom of thought and expression, and new options for […]
ChinaSource Perspective
Viewing the Registered Church through Different Lenses
[…] control of the Communist Party (although it did serve this purpose), but was seen by its leaders as the only way forward for the church in the new era. With the outbreak of the Korean conflict, the stated desire to see a Chinese church independent of missionary control took on a decidedly political dimension. […]
Collective Misunderstanding
[…] never to have ceased to be primarily the faith of a foreign community…Nestorianism seems to have depended chiefly upon foreign leadership and support.”6 Daniel Bays in his New History of Christianity in China echoes this sentiment, noting there is little evidence that many Han Chinese believed.7 Richard Cook’s Darkest Before the Dawn likewise asserts […]
3 Questions: Honor, Shame, and the Gospel
[…] influenced in part by Western values. We have moved away from colonialism in our methods but not our theology. As a catalyst we want to be seeding new teams and collaborations to develop new ministry resources, ways of presenting the gospel, and training for cross-cultural ministry. We’re looking for new case histories, people writing […]
Faces of Christian Leadership in China
[…] God is raising up a variety of Christian leaders in China today. Luis Bush and I look further at this changing face of Christian leadership in China in China’s Next Generation: New China, New Church, New World, available in PDF format from ChinaSource or on Amazon. Image credit: More People, by Mike Beltzner, via Flickr
A Strategy Forged in Bethlehem
[…] weakness are met with the assurance that Christ’s redemptive purposes will be fulfilled, and God’s power revealed, in our lives. Bono, <em>Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story </em>( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2022), 512. Philippians 2:6-8. Hannah Nation, “Chinese Lessons in Apologetics: Learning from a Church Under Pressure,” <em>Comment,</em> December 7, 2023, accessed December […]
Responding to Restrictions on Children’s Ministry
[…] kindergartens, Christian-run private schools, homeschool networks, and online programs hosted abroad have all become options for parents seeking to impart a biblical worldview to their children. With new restrictions on religious activities, these options may become less viable in the future. Already churches in some provinces have been told to cease children’s programs. How […]