The Gospel in China

So last night, after talking to a lot of people a lot smarter than I am, we started our second meeting in the new place. And though this morning I feel like I lost a sand-drinking contest, everything went relatively well. It’s pretty cool, really. Some strong points jump out really quickly. It creates some […]

Last night I ate with our top two bringers. Between these two guys, they normally bring about half of the people at our Bible study. That doesn’t mean that all these people are their personal guests – many would come even if it wasn’t for these two guys. But there are plenty that only come […]

The plan for tomorrow is two have two Bible studies in the evening with an hour in between for the audience exchange. So hopefully, we’ll have a good number come to each. Even if we don’t succeed at getting the word out to all the individuals, I’ve talked to the bringers of the largest group, […]

It’s an interesting labor system here. There are tons of places in town where you’ll find a bunch of people sitting out on the sidewalk with a little sign in front of them. Took me a long time to figure out who these people were and what their signs were all about. Turns out, they’re […]

Right now, we’re trying to put together some of our plans for the next few months. I’m trying to get as much input as possible, because I’ve really never done anything like this before, and I don’t have any affinity for a bunch of stuff exploding in my face. I’m really thankful to have a […]

Nothing is more annoying than naysayers. This guy comes to our Bible study semi-regularly. He’s got his own church that he’s semi-committed to, and he’s semi-serious about his walk as a disciple of Christ. Semi-anything is a good place to be for a naysayer. It supposedly gives you a right to run your mouth, but […]

Just got home from our leaders meeting. When we started this meeting, I thought it would be my favorite thing on our weekly schedule, but quite the opposite has turned out to be true. It always goes well, but this is the meeting that we have our future plans banked on. With expectations that high, […]

Quite a night. It started to rain a little bit before our Bible study, and one of our guys wrote us to ask if we were still canceling. He apparently had “Bible study” confused with “baseball game.” So I didn’t know what would happen to our attendance. Praise the Lord, we had about 80 people […]

Our new place is in a particularly difficult place to find. No secret passages or anything, just a hard-to-describe part of a less-than-well-known street. Most taxi drivers don’t know how to get there. So I usually have to explain the first couple of turns for them, and by then they normally figure it out. An […]

Busy day yesterday. Trying to get the place in condition for Saturday’s Bible study. Last week we didn’t have much besides chairs – I kinda wanted it to feel like a blank canvas, so that the students could feel changes happening with or without them over the next few weeks. Hopefully stir some more interest […]