When it comes to church transformation, two house church pastors state that the Chinese church should return to the original "house church" and settle down to be equipped more before future revivals.
In 2021, we can be said to be in a new “unprecedented era of great changes”. The same is true of today’s churches, especially those in the post-pandemic era. What is the way out for the church to live out its faith to the world?
Recently a pastor in East China stressed that if Christians desired to integrate faith into their lives, they ought to pay more attention to culture and sports, and to enhance the training of willpower and character.
A scholar shared six images of rural Christianity in China through a literature review: positive reputation, utilitarianism, localization, marginalism, folk religion, and a "harmful thing".
"Many believers still can't accept services without a lobby because, without a gathering place, people would feel that their church has come to an end." A pastor in eastern China said, "Back to Jesus' teaching. Jesus did not limit the Christian connection to the church.”
A pastor from central China urges fellow workers to begin with themselves who should be an example for others to imitate rather than teach them theories.
Brother W, a Christian scholar in South China, says that extreme speeches, secularization, church internal struggling, prosperity theology, and the generation gap between the older generation of pastors and young believers are the challenges that the church needs to face today.
When Chinese church pastors and believers return to the state of faith in the Lord Christ of the early church again, the revival of Chinese churches is just around the corner, and its influence on the world gospel mission will reach a new height.
Rather than considering the conversion between underground and going public, we need to let the gospel itself play the reading role and go to our communities and neighbors with the good news.
Two writings from two sojourner Christians of Xuzhou origin in which they expressed their thoughts and reflections on the case of the chained mother of eight children in their hometown.
The Xuzhou chained mother of eight incident is of milestone significance. May the incident become a watershed to wake up today’s Chinese church’s “uneasy conscience”.