The Gospel in China

Fr. showed up early to our study on Thursday. It was his second time attending, and he listened intently throughout the message on Jesus’ healing of the blind man in John 9. The central theme of the message: One of the best evidences that Jesus truly is the Son of God is the change He […]

So it’s been a while since I’ve been able to post. Just got home yesterday afternoon, and we had our Bible study last night. The trip went very well. We were able to interview a couple of missionaries in this city and learn some more about the variety of conditions in China. Bottom line is, […]

I’ve had a terrifically awful time trying to get my blog to work here. Internet speed is pretty bad. But, what do you expect from an internet cafe? There’s probably two hundred computers in here – pretty crazy sight. So, we’ve been in this city for a couple of days now. Met with a missionary […]

Well, we are leaving home in just half an hour. But I wanted to give a quick update about our Bible study last night. We had a great number again, which is surprising as the semester has ended and many students are leaving for their hometowns. That effect may settle in next week – we’ll […]

I’m all about Acts 17 right now. It’s Paul talking to the Athenians on Mars’ Hill. The application? A modernistic society that values pluralistic philosophical thinking, cultivates an interest in the outside world, maintains unreasonable superstitions, and has no concrete ideas about the nature of God. Sounds quite a bit like China today. In other […]

The other day, A. came to a class that is usually just for the American workers. He’s read John and most of Acts now, but the class moved really quick, and the English was pretty sloppy. He told me on the phone that night that he was frustrated because he didn’t understand more of it. […]

Just read a report that says that the ratio of Christian workers to church attenders in our province is 1:10,000! The need for workers here is absolutely unbelievable! When I preached at the underground church on Sunday, my translator, J., told me, as many others have told me already, that the biggest need in China […]

We had our Christian leaders meeting last night again. This is definitely going to be my favorite meeting of the week, especially once I can do it in Mandarin. Far more in-depth time than our Thursday Bible study. Last night we talked about the person of Jesus Christ: His claims, His miracles, His deity, and […]

Preached this morning at a large underground church in Harbin. A Communist-party-member, police-officer church member picked us up in his van. There were probably close to 200 people there. We were only maybe three blocks away from a state-sponsored Three-Self church that runs a couple thousand. The church I was in is of the “Reformed” […]

Kicked off our new study on miracles at the Bible study last night. We have a pretty high turnover of students every week due, in a large part, to the language gap. Because it’s in English, there are definitely some every week that just don’t get it. But there are some that are really showing […]