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Love In Action
[…] care of him. I took care of everything for them from finding a doctor to arrangements for the hospital stay. My mother-in-law’s heart was weak at that time, so I couldn’t let her stay with my father-in-law at night. I spent the nights with him instead. Sometimes I returned home during the day to […]
Bearing With: Recognizing and Accepting Differences
We are all members of the body of Christ. And while there are appropriate times to leave a particular ministry or church to find another, when the reason for leaving is related to conflict triggered by differences, please pause, and first consider taking biblical peacemaking steps.
Prayer First
[…] He can’t do anything. He caused so much suffering to his wife and daughter. How can he glorify you?” God’s clear response was amazing: “It is now time. The time to forgive your father has come.” I thought, “Wait a minute! First, I don’t want to forgive him out of pity. Second, I don’t […]
Spanning the Gap for Returnees
[…] to make disciples? Do the students misunderstand the motives behind the kind hospitality of Christians? In the busyness of their student lives, is there simply not enough time for them to be discipled before they return to China? Do the new Christians grasp what church is truly about and thus are able to participate […]
3 Questions: Far East Deep South
An Interview with Director Larissa Lam
[…] Chinese.” Hearing Chinese speak with a southern accent and seeing meat barbequed in a backyard wok in the Mississippi Delta amazed me. I wanted to go and check it out, but I haven’t made it there yet. However, Larissa Lam and her family did, but for far more personal reasons—to discover her husband’s family’s […]
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Reaching the Second Generation
[…] not experience God’s grace. Once, after hearing how sin is not just a behavior issue but a heart issue, a brother remarked that it was the first time he had heard this in his Chinese church. If the existential cry of the second generation is “Who am I?” then we do well to preach […]
ChinaSource Perspective
Member Care for Workers from China—a Growing Understanding
My first introduction to Chinese Christians going out as cross-cultural workers was in Hong Kong. From time to time a graduate of the seminary where I taught would return from the mission field and speak in the chapel service. Those talks were always fascinating. I was listening to someone from the culture that I […]
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City Reaching
A Model for Holistic Service and Witness
[…] impose biblical values on others is equally unbiblical. None of this is meant by those who use the word. Transformation is a reference to two points of time in a city’s history: where the city is now and where it once was. When I became a Christian my life was transformed. I was not […]
The Chinese Students on Your Doorstep
[…] the friendship and witness of local Christians, often as part of campus ministry groups and churches, these students are being exposed to the gospel—some for the first time—and many are coming to faith. But what happens to these new believers when they return home? One PhD student from Xi’an who came to faith while […]
Getting Out of the Bubble
[…] before he left, Fong came home after one of many farewell lunches. Rather than heading up to his room to change before returning to his lab to check on one of his many ongoing experiments, he sat down in our sitting room and said to me, “you know I’m an atheist.” One of those […]