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An Interview with a Missions Leader in China (1)
TT is an experienced missions coordinator and is the founder and director of one of China’s oldest sending organizations. He has contributed several articles to ChinaSource over the years and was the co-editor of the spring 2013 issue of ChinaSource Quarterly, entitled “China’s Indigenous Mission Movement.” This post is the first of a three-part […]
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 […]
“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, […]
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, […]
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) […]
Mapping China’s Christian Legacy
The Story of the China Historical Christian Database
[…] the data is through collaboration. If you want to get involved, please contact us. Fund the mission. The CHCD has received several grants in the past, including one from the United States’ National Endowment for the Humanities. However, all the grants have not exceeded the money individual donors combined have given. This project is […]