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How China’s Religious Affairs Bureaucracy Works
[…] way to grasp how the religious affairs bureaucracy works is to view it historically, which is especially useful as the structure today is a holdover from the 1950s. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) came to power, it organized all non-communists who wished to cooperateor collaborateinto a “united front,” by which allies could be […]
Crossing Cultures: Table Manners
[…] a feast, multiple delicious dishes served hot and with many different colors and textures. Some were surprised I could use chopsticks, a skill learned in the early 1960s as a child when our family would go out to eat at Charlie’s Restaurant. We sat at a large round table with many dishes on a […]
Crossing Cultures: Conveying the Gospel
[…] of how the gospel will be conveyed cross culturally and what kinds of churches will result is central to the long-term success of the Chinese mission movement. 1 The way we convey the gospel cross-culturally depends on how we understand the gospel, and how we understand the gospel is rooted in our worldview assumptions. […]
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.
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?
[…] loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party and comparatively weaker emphasis on traditional Christian ideas. Five-year TSPM/CCC plans are not new. In fact, since its formation in the 1950s, the TSPM—like all other societal organizations under Chinese Communist Party (or CCP) leadership—was required to formulate plans in step with the five-year plans of the CCP. […]
Crossing Cultures: Enlightenment and the Middle Kingdom
[…] edible golden grain. These incredibly efficient methods can produce 8,000 pounds of edible rice on one acre. To give some perspective, a person can survive, barely, on 1 pound of rice per day, 365 pounds per year. Eight thousand pounds of rice could sustain 20 human lives for a year. California’s rice lands produce […]
Crossing Cultures: Capacity and Insight
[…] and listened as Jesus argued that spiritual defilement came from within, from the heart, and not from external contamination from ritually unclean behaviors or foods (Mark 7: 1–23). Mark’s unusually rare editorial comment in 7:19 illustrates how reflection over time developed capacity for ministering cross-culturally: it was ten years after Jesus’ declaration that all […]