Shanghai: We Need More New Churches
Editor’s note: This May, we are praying for Shanghai. Today, we continue our conversation with five Shanghai pastors. They discuss how their city has changed over the last several years, since the beginning of the Covid pandemic and as oversight of faith in China has become more stringent. Many of the pastors referenced the difficult […]
Christian Education: Jesus and Chinese Culture
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part interview series in which we spoke with a Chinese educator involved in establishing a Christian school outside of China. (Part one can be found here.) This educator believes there is a lot of common grace in Chinese culture, but that Jesus is the solution to problems […]
Shanghai: All Rivers Flow to the Same Sea
Editor’s note: This May, we are praying for Shanghai. Shanghai is one of the world’s most affluent and cosmopolitan cities, and is an important center of business and commerce in China and across the globe. The mega-city has about 29 million residents, making it one of the world’s biggest cities. Today, we hear from four […]
Shanghai: Life as a Pastor’s Wife
Editor’s note: In May, China Partnership is praying for the city of Shanghai. As we focus on the particular issues Shanghai people face, we wanted to re-run the first part of an older interview we previously published with a Shanghai pastor’s wife. In this interview, she discusses the pressure she faces in the church, some […]
Why Should I Love My Enemies: Modern Versus Biblical Love
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a sermon Wang Yi, pastor of Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, preached on Matthew 5:38-48 before he was imprisoned in 2018. This is the second in a series of excerpts from this sermon; part one can be found here. In this selection, Wang questions dominant understandings of […]
Shanghai: Traditional Culture, Human Sin
Editor’s note: In May, China Partnership is praying for the city of Shanghai. As we focus on the particular issues Shanghai people face, we wanted to re-run an older interview we previously published with a Shanghai pastor. In this interview, he considers how he himself has changed after becoming a Christian. He received a traditional […]
Why Should I Love My Enemies?
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a sermon Wang Yi, pastor of Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, preached on Matthew 5:38-48 before he was imprisoned in 2018. Over the next weeks, we will eventually publish the entire sermon, which is an in-depth meditation on what it really means to love those who hate […]
The Internal Cross: A Pastoral Letter
Editor’s note: This pastoral letter, from February of this year, encourages and commends believers for the way they have borne up under the outward persecution of recent year. Yet, in the second half, he urges them to take up and bear their “inner” cross: to die to themselves and lay down their lives in their […]
The External Cross: A Pastoral Letter
Editor’s note: This pastoral letter, from February of this year, encourages and commends believers for the way they have borne up under the outward persecution of recent year. In this first half of the letter, Elder Li Yingqiang praises his congregation for their fortitude under pressure, for the love they have shown others in their […]
Qingdao: How to Pray
Editor’s note: This April, we are praying for Qingdao. Qingdao is a city of about 9 million, and is a well-known tourist spot and important seaport in northern China. To help us pray for their city, several Qingdao pastors shared some of their thoughts on the people and culture of Qingdao, as well as the […]
