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Staying in China
The Issues
[…] a true friend of China and given, what was at the time, the rare honor of permanent residence. These experiences of two equally committed Christian professionals, both of whom felt called to serve in China, are drastically different. There are several issues here, but clearly "retention" or longevity of in-country service is one of them.</p>
Book Reviews
Scriptural Devotionals of God at Work in China
<p><em>Making Pentecost Your Story: 50 Days of Reflection and Prayer by </em>Robert Menzies<br /> <em>Reviewed by </em><em>Peter S. Anderson</em></p> <p>Following a brief overview of the church in China, this book provides 50 daily devotional readings covering seven weeks. Each reading begins with a well-chosen Scripture passage followed by a short story based on Dr […]
Book Reviews
Exploring New Zealand’s Rich Christian Heritage
Bible & Treaty: Missionaries among the Māori—A New Perspective: A Book Review
[…] British subjects. Another fascinating part of the story that Newman highlights is the influence on this critical and formative period of New Zealand’s history of the so- called Clapham Sect in Britain. Under the subheading “Humanitarian revolution” Newman gives an excellent account of the influence of this remarkable “group of ordinary churchgoers, ministers, influential […]
Editorials
Packing a Punch!
[…] in the church. Immigrants (including Chinese) are bringing fresh life to many churches. Chinese Christians are not only found in Chinese churches, of course. Many English-speaking, so- called Kiwi churches have significant numbers of Chinese congregants. In some Kiwi churches, Chinese play leading roles on deacons’ or elders’ boards and quite a few are […]
Crossing Cultures: Perspective and Spiritual Maturity
[…] Faith:</em> <em>The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning</em> (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco-HarperCollins Publishers, 1995), 135-173. J. Robert Clinton, <em>Leadership Emergence Theory: A Self-Study Manual for Analyzing the Development of a Christian Leader</em> (Pasadena, CA: Barnabas Publishers, 1989), 177. Whiteman 2024, loc. 3869-3897. Anthropologists call this practice “participant observation.” See Whiteman 2024, loc. 3628-3897.
Crossing Cultures: Boundary Events and Paradigm Shifts
[…] shadows. In his grace, the Lord was leading me toward his light, and by 1975, he had given me enduring faith, my future wife’s heart, and a call to pursue his kingdom first. During those two years, I experienced my first boundary event and paradigm shift. But not my last. Almost like clockwork, every […]
Crossing Cultures: Ethnocentric Conversion
[…] no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything common or unclean.” The Lord’s reply was the same each time: “What God has made clean, do not call common.” (See Acts 10:13–16.) Why such instinctual and unbending resistance to the Lord’s explicit directions? Because the Lord had invited Peter to violate one of his […]
Sharing the Gospel: Franchise or Indigenization?
[…] I think not. Almost exactly twenty years ago three friends and I sat in a mission-funded apartment in Moscow waiting to meet our Russian host who I’ll call Ivan. The apartment was a staging point for American teachers providing training for Russian pastors with the eventual goal to start a denominational seminary in Moscow. […]
Crossing Cultures: Theology versus theology
[…] people’s deepest needs and penetrates their worldview, thus allowing them to follow Christ and remain within their own culture.28 That process of engaging culture with Scripture is called critical contextualization and is best accomplished in a hermeneutical community of mature and seasoned leaders who are led and inspired by the Holy Spirit to understand […]