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Is Church a leisure club or a mission training school?

是俱樂部，還是宣教學院？（董家驊）2017.09.18

Link to Chinese article: 中文： http://behold.oc.org/?p=34504

Author: Pastor Dong Jia-Hua

Translation of article in “Behold” magazine by Keith Ranger

He says – “I recently attended a Conference of workers from a number of different places in North America on how to do lasting and effective evangelistic ministry in the lives of international students, especially in the area of being up to date and not behind the times in reaching out to those from China. The expressed need was for relevant and engaging methodology and really making an effort to keep up to date with ‘where these people are now coming from’ in terms of their expectations and priorities. Things can, and do, change so fast! We cannot, and must not, live in the past!

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中国教会简介 (The Church in China – An Introduction)

This is a translation of the article The Church in China – An Introduction.

本文章是一篇对中国教会的简介，旨在帮助在海外信主的基督徒回国前提前了解中国教会的状况。

很多中国人误以为基督教只是近年来才传到中国。实际上基督信仰传到中国的最早记录可以追溯到唐朝，准确地说是公元635年i。要了解基督教会当时在中国的状况，我们需要先了解欧洲和中东教会的情况。

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The Church in China – An Introduction

A Chinese translation of this article is available here

This article is intended to be a brief introduction to the church in China for Chinese who have become Christians while overseas and want to understand something about the church in China before returning there.

A common misunderstanding by many Chinese today is that Christianity only came to China very recently. In actual fact the first documented arrival of the Christian faith to China is during the Tang dynasty in 635AD[i]. In order to understand what was happening in China, we must first understand what was happening to the Christian church in Europe and the Middle East.

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