By far the most important and effective attitude Christians can have or action they can perform is love, especially in this time of international and domestic conflict.
We hear about “the new normal” a lot these days, but actually, for much of mankind over much of its history, suffering was normal, especially for Christians.
The question is, How will we respond? With fearful self-preservation? Or with faith, hope, and love?
The truth about God’s work among the Chinese suffers from neglect and distortion, and many of God’s faithful messengers have been either idealized by well-meaning friends or demonized by enemies of the gospel.
That the Second Person of the Trinity, the eternal Son of God, should, by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, come into Mary’s womb and be joined to human flesh, taking on our nature forever – Who can comprehend this?
God has prospered us far more abundantly than anyone could have imagined when I opened a bank account in the name of China Institute with only a few dollars in 1989.
The first and oldest of our websites is the platform of China Institute, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this fall. Today, I would like to invite you to explore that resource.
For the past two years, we have been looking at “Old Strategies” to deal with “New Realities.” I have written about “What” we do and “How” we do it, but I have not talked about “Why?”