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Drinking from a Deep Well
[…] Christians serving cross-culturally” (Brent Fulton). The church in China is demonstrating that “persecution often brings pressure that can only be resolved as the church faces challenges ‘with one heart and one mind.'” (See Acts 4:23-31.) Unity is not an end in itself. “When the church has a clear sense of mission—a clear purpose—it is united” […]
The 3D Gospel Is Now in Mandarin
[…] (chapters 2–4). The first (chapter 2) explains what is meant when we categorize a culture with phrases like “guilt-innocence,” “honor-shame,” and “fear-power.” Georges does not claim that one culture type is inherently better than another. Rather, he suggests that each culture-type addresses different human needs. Chapter 3 looks at the interaction between the […]
For Such a Time as This in Real Time
<p>Even as the world is facing the worst pandemic in a century, I believe the Lord has given ChinaSource an important calling to continue helping forge collaborative oneness in Christ between the church in China and the global church, while amplifying Chinese church voices and bringing understanding to the church in the West.</p>
“China Is Not Russia”
Those words, “China is not Russia,” was one of the earliest insights I gained from my initial contact with the Institute for Chinese Studies at the Billy Graham Center, the predecessor to ChinaSource. I had worked for 10 years in what was then the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. That was the era of […]
The Nitty Gritty of China’s Social Credit System
[…] making a few comments and offering links for those who want to dig deeper. Here are my main observations: Perceptions of the Social Credit System In part one of Hmaidi’s talk, she shows how the social credit system is perceived in China and the West. Many Chinese do not even know this system exists […]
6 Approaches to Contextualization in China
[…] the importance of culture in contextualization. Typically, this method employs a prominent cultural issue, seeking to synchronize or coordinate theology and culture. Often, the chosen theme is not one of the foremost motifs found in the Bible itself. In China, this may include ancestor worship, Chinese New Year, cosmology, even the Chinese language itself. “Scriptural” […]
Learning from China about Student Ministry
A Reader Responds to the 2021 Summer CSQ
[…] for young Chinese minority students navigating “three life compartments:” the university identity, the family/ethnic identity, and the Christian identity. It is hard enough to discover and remember one’s true identity in Christ when one comes from a single, majority culture and has a Christ-influenced background. Even the disciples of Jesus, steeped in Jewish learning, […]
The Ministry of Women in the Chinese Church
[…] Remarkable Story of China’s ‘Bible Women’,” eL notes, “since the 2000s, women in the surging urban house churches have tended to be discouraged from most leadership positions.” One must ask what factors marked this shift. From my perspective, I suggest two possible reasons. First, it was in 2000 that the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) […]
View From the Wall
Why Believers Need to Understand Chinese Church History
[…] as a bishop. At just this time when the mission work was so positive, internal disputes within the church led to the well-known “Rites Controversy.” The resulting one hundred year proscription of the church during the Qing dynasty caused irretrievable loss to the Chinese church. Looking at these two periods of church history together, […]
Editorials
More than a Label
From "Back to Jerusalem" to "Indigenous Mission Movement from China"
[…] make IMM from China a reality are: A clear missiology: This is pointed out by several authors in this issue. The Great Commission is not exclusively Chinese. One African delegate in the 2012 Ethne Conference expressed this clearly by saying: “Even if Jerusalem is the goal of missions, it is approaching Jerusalem from all […]