Chinese Church

Reader's Choice Award Winner. Throughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand how they have endured despite government pressure and cultural marginalization, we must understand both their history and their theology. In this volume, key writings from the house church have been compiled, translated, and made accessible to English speakers.

In Faith in the Wilderness, editors Hannah Nation and Simon Liu pull together the insights of the Chinese Church for the West. These sermonic letters from Chinese Christians will awaken listeners to the reality of the gospel—the ground of our hope—in the midst of darkness.

In August 2024, Shirley and I will be celebrating our Golden Anniversary. We were married on August 18, 1974, in New York City. Our wedding ceremony was held at the First Chinese Presbyterian Church in Chinatown on Lower Manhattan. Since 1974, I have changed seven jobs and we have moved six times, all along the East Coast. We went through good and difficult times. We raised two successful daughters and have two grandchildren. We love to travel and cruise the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. This eBook compiles some of the pictures, just two of us, which we captured during our travel in the...

Church leaders and pastors can sometimes struggle with a sudden increase in church attendance. And yet, what if the church in one nation is experiencing toward a million people each month being added? What would be the challenges? What about unity, communication, or discipleship? What are the church models that are applied to cope with revival and also in facing daily persecution?