There are few well-organized groups in Chinese society, so the community life of the church is actually very rare. In this community life, the church needs to demonstrate what right and good power relationships look like.
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We ought to battle for the sake of our descendants. Although our generation is pursued and punished, we do not want our descendants to live in this way. We cannot escape our responsibility and leave this to the next generation. This is ours. We must stand up, speak out, and suffer.
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When you endure hardship, you are proclaiming that Christ is all in all, he is my sufficiency. You are not boasting in yourself. Our hope is that, eventually, Christ and the Spirit will deliver us. How can we boast or hold fast? By prayer. We have no external resources, only prayer.
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Can the Chinese church of today, with its message and through its life in action, enact an upward gospel narrative? Can the Chinese church reconstruct hope for the culture? …Can overseas Chinese churches welcome the large number of people being swept up in the Run Tide with open arms?
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No one should stop giving financially based on the pretext that the church is facing persecution...The heavenly nature of giving is more truly revealed when there is risk in doing so.
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Persecution is focused on three areas: church property, church doctrine, and church polity (which includes clergy). All of this is aimed at restricting the church from exercising the basic mission entrusted to it by the King of heaven: worship, discipleship, and evangelism.
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No one factor alone can explain the miracle of the growth of the Mainland Chinese church in the past 40-plus years. The only absolute factor is God's hand behind it all…...We should be looking and praying for insights into how God is at work today. Is Covid another "loss" that could open hearts?
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GEM’s album and love-story are consistent with Mandopop themes. Much of Mandopop’s music laments the despair and pain of a love lost, which is what makes it so appealing to young people seeking to make sense of heartbreak. What makes this album refreshing is GEM’s unabashed celebration of a love found, or more accurately, a love that finds us.
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Christians are not to become enviable elites in this transitional China, which is full of deep suffering. Instead, we are to suffer with those who suffer and weep with those who weep. The resurrected Christ is the only true hope for sinners.
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From the time Jesus Christ opened the door of salvation, to the time he will return to announce the end of redemptive history, every generation of Christians lives in the age of “the present time.” The present time is an age of “deep night.”…Right now, we are still in a long, deep night before the morning light dawns and completely illuminates the world.
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