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Denominationalism in China: Pre or Post?
[…] from the unique provision and leading of God to a particular denomination in her history. Because of this, older traditional churches in China are often critical of new, younger, urban churches in their constitutionalization processes to establish denominations. It is very easy to import a denominational book of governance or church constitution or doctrinal […]
China by the Lists
[…] Christmas carol (which, after the eighth or ninth verse has been known to test the sanity of even the soundest of souls). On the twelfth day of New Year, the Party gave to me: Twelve Socialist Values Eleven Most Active Cults Ten-Year Visas Nine-Dash Line Eight Shames and Honors Seven Percent Growth Rate Six […]
2016: Not “Business as Usual”
[…] a rethink of how expatriate Christians serve in China? I tend to agree with Swells that what we’re experiencing is the latter, particularly in view of the new policy environment and its affect both upon foreigners and upon Chinese Christians whom they seek to serve. Events over the past year suggest that what’s ahead […]
The Changing Face of Political Leadership in China
[…] as he brought China out from the shadow of the Cultural Revolution and into the modern world. In a word, Deng focused on peaceful development, experimented with new economic models aimed at incentivizing China’s people, curbed population growth, nurtured a new generation of well-trained bureaucrats, and used China’s competitive advantages to engineer a new […]
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, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
In an Ever-Changing China, Some Things Haven’t Changed
[…] problem. At the same time, various forms of crime, addictions, and counterfeit products plague society. Cheating and bribery now go hand in hand as China travels a new path to a market economy. Today, murders, robberies and explosions have become common news. Government leaders from villages, townships and provinces up to high-ranking officials in […]
A Look at China’s Registered Church
From the 2020 Autumn Issue of CSQ
[…] 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. […]
From Doing to Paving the Way
In part two of this series we looked at the transition from leading to modeling. For many foreign organizations, China’s new Overseas NGO Law is hastening this transition. Duties that had been the responsibility of foreign workers must be passed to local colleagues as the role of foreign leaders is redefined. On the other […]