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Chinese Christians in the New Era—Hope and Overcoming
[…] the Japanese invasion in the 1930s to protect their congregations and lost their lives as a result. Swells is right, of course, that a focus on the numbers of converts was always misplaced; the focus should always be on the faithfulness and integrity of those who do convert, not on whether they are numerous […]
Crossing Cultures: The Promise and the Blessing
[…] Nelson, Inc., 1985; and <em>The New Bible Dictionary</em>. Edited by I. Howard Marshall, A.R. Millard, J.I. Packer, and D.J. Wiseman. Lisle, IL: IVP Academic, 1996, p. 160. See Genesis 1: 20, 26-28. All references are from the New International Version. Genesis 3:6–7. Genesis 3:15. Genesis 12:2–3. Exodus 19:6. I Samuel 8:19–20. Isaiah 53:1, 5b, 12b.
Ministering Cross-Culturally: A 150 Percent Person
We can work toward becoming what Sherwood Lingenfelter described as a 150 percent person, a person who retains 75 percent of their birth culture and adopts 75 percent of their new culture. Such a person becomes more than they used to, able to minister cross-culturally with greater empathy and impact.
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A Decade of ChinaSource
[…] an update on China’s growing urban church that is taking a variety of forms. In addition, we introduce you to the new ChinaSource website and recommend the 2010 Prayer Calendar. Throughout the years, ChinaSource has provided a variety of resources designed to aid and enhance your China service. As one of those resources, the […]
Official Protestant Groups Plan Next Five Years of Sinicization
What Does the TSPM/CCC 5-Year Plan Tell Us about the Direction of Official Protestantism?
[…] plans like any other Communist Party organization? What is new about this five-year plan? In this analysis, I compared the 2023–2027 plan13 with the previous plan14 for 2018–2022 to see what’s new and what is the same. The most important conclusion is that the TSPM/CCC now lays far greater emphasis on political loyalty to […]
Crossing Cultures: Enlightenment and the Middle Kingdom
The Lord builds his church, and the church he constructs will look a bit different in each climate and landscape. It is the seed that has power to grow roots down into deeply buried cultural expressions and expectations, roots that will produce fruit fitting the context, fruit that is both beautiful and empowering.
Crossing Cultures: Capacity and Insight
Expectations for new missionaries as well as for their sending bodies should include a long-term developmental perspective that recognizes on-field difficulties as expected and as the normative shaping events God intentionally uses to develop cross-cultural ministry capacity.
Crossing Cultures: Boundary Events and Paradigm Shifts
[…] and enduring personal transformation.”25 Illumination represents a paradigm shift where a fundamental worldview presupposition changes so profoundly “that one perceives and understands reality in a different way.” 26 This level of a paradigm shift describes the “radical reorganization of underlying components…like rebuilding a house using parts and pieces of the old, but with a […]
Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned
[…] you can come to China and impress everyone by saying you caught a fish THIS BIG. “Americans Drive on the Left and Other Truths I’ve Learned” was originally published at small town laowai on May 8, 2015. Header image courtesy of Traffic (are you ready?) by Marianna, on Flickr Text images courtesy of small town laowai
Crossing Cultures: Ethnocentric Conversion
[…] with the greatest blessing ever given. Ministering cross-culturally requires what Darrell Whiteman calls ethnocentric conversion, the kind of transformation Peter experienced in Acts 10 (See below: Whiteman 2018; Whiteman 2022; and Whiteman 2023). The Apostle Peter’s ethnocentric conversion exploded into fullness through an unanticipated personal interaction with Cornelius, a Gentile military officer who lived […]