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Pray for Christ’s Church in China

6/3/2015

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Chinese Believers
One of the great benefits of ministering at a large university is the opportunity to minister to many foreign students. We are in an environment where God has brought the nations to us as they come to Bloomington to study! In particular, we have seen much faith and repentance among Chinese students at IU. We love their hunger for the word of God, their desire to grow, and their receptiveness to the preaching of God's Word.

I just read this article from WORLD Magazine, which helped me to understand a little bit more about the culture our Chinese students come from, and more about the difficulties facing Christians in China. Here's a teaser:

Yet this ever-expanding group of first-generation Christians is facing the growing pains of maturing in a society that has erased God from the public sphere for more than half a century. After professing Christ, many young believers don’t know how to discern between truth and lies. Deep-seated attitudes developed by a lifetime of Communist propaganda and atheist education are difficult to shake. The legal illegitimacy of house churches slows down discipleship: In some, pastors abort their babies, marriages split, children leave the church, and cults cajole the gullible.

And yet, the good news about the Good News is that creative believers are finding ways to fight sinful tendencies…
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