Tag: Three-Self Church
Anshun City Protestant Church
Brief visits with a priest and a pastor in Anshun, Guizhou.
A Tour of Three-Self Churches
Kunming—Trinity International Church
In the summer of 2011 I spent about two months traversing China from Kunming in the south to Hegang near the Russian border in the north visiting registered churches and interviewing the pastors.
Reconciliation Is Good, But . . .
Is reconciliation between the Three-self church and house church possible?
The Challenge of Being the Church in China
Being the church in China is a growing challenge. Are registered churches affected? How are they responding?
When Counting Is Hard . . . in China (2)
Analysis
More on the challenges of determining the number of Christians in China.
Understanding the Times to Facilitate Chinese Missionary Sending
Christians of today need to hold the Bible in one hand and the daily newspaper in the other. Understanding both, with attention to the thrust of meaning of each, Christians can be a bridge facilitating God’s purposes in today’s world.
Too Quickly to Be Astonished
Surveying China’s extraordinary rise over the past decade, Graham Allison, in his book Destined for War, paraphrases former Czech President Vaclav Havel when he says, “It has happened so quickly, we have not yet had time to be astonished.”
The Greying of China and the Church’s Response
As China’s elderly population mushrooms and its working-age population shrinks, Christian families find themselves caught in the middle of this demographic divide. Cultural expectations and legal requirements put the onus on them to care for older family members, but neither the government nor the society at large are adequately prepared to support this effort.