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October 10, 2013
Can We Balance the Ying-Yang of Justification?
What do recent debates about justification have to do with China? In the last post,...
October 08, 2013
The Doctrine of Justification in a Chinese Context
How should justification influence our ministry in China? If we are concerned with sharing the...
October 03, 2013
The Gospel with Chinese Characteristics
How do we contextualize the gospel for a Chinese context?More specifically, what would you say...
October 03, 2013
Hitler's Rant on N. T. Wright and John Piper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M_6EuMuC4Kc Next week, I'll start a series on justification, wherein I'll suggest that Chinese culture...
October 01, 2013
Why China Matters for Doing Theology: God’s Mission
God’s mission is at stake. Therefore, China matters for the way we do theology. (This...
September 2013
September 26, 2013
Train Short-term Workers to Do Contextualization (Orientation Packet)
Do you ever have volunteer teams come to China? I have created a contextualization packet...
September 25, 2013
Why American Businesses Fail in China
Here's an interesting article posted at NBCnews.com, "Why big American businesses fail in China" I...
September 24, 2013
Why China Matters for Doing Theology: The Inspired Authority of Scripture
In Part 1, I said that China matters because biblical truth is at stake. Today,...
September 19, 2013
Why China Matters for Doing Theology: Biblical Truth
Why would someone need to know more about China in order to understand the Bible...
September 18, 2013
One of the most important quotes I’ve read on contextualization
The following is one of the most significant quotes I’ve ever read about contextualization. I...
September 17, 2013
Why Missionaries Refuse to Change Their Methods
There are some fundamental reasons why missionaries are very slow to change their ways. It...
September 12, 2013
Doing Biblical Theology from Outside the Box
Ideally, we can share the biblical story orally and visually. In other words, what people...
September 10, 2013
Gathering the Nations in the New Creation
以辱为荣:Honored through Shame Jesus overturns the world’s understanding of honor and shame. When people give...
September 06, 2013
The Next Big Strategy for Starting a CPM?
So, do you think this could be the next big method people use to do...
September 05, 2013
The Resurrection and Restoration of God's People
How are we to understand Christ within the grand narrative of Scripture? After all, Jesus...
September 03, 2013
Why Israel? Recovering the Bible's Forgotten Middle
This post depicts Israel within the biblical story. The summary follows the picture below. God...
August 2013
August 29, 2013
How Do We Do “Theology from a Box”?
Today, I begin to explain step by step how to tell the whole story of...
August 27, 2013
Keeping the Biblical Story Coherent and Balanced
If you would like to download the graph above, click here (a bigger picture) or...
August 22, 2013
The Biblical Story in the Context of Honor and Shame
It’s asking a lot of a single model to capture the whole biblical story in...
August 20, 2013
What Comes First? Biblical Theology or Evangelism Methods?
Although many can recite a set evangelistic presentation, fewer people could comfortably make sense of...
August 15, 2013
A Model to Explain the Entire Bible (a new series)
This is the first post of a series that introduces a new tool that helps...
August 13, 2013
What Vanilla Ice Teaches Us About Contextualization
There is an entire generation of people who can sing nearly every lyric of Vanilla...
August 08, 2013
A Theological Version of "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell"
When people are not against something but not necessarily "for" it, what do they do?...
August 06, 2013
Is Our Theology Enslaved to the Law?
How do the various biblical metaphors and word pictures relate to one another? Click on...
August 01, 2013
Some Trends in the Chinese Christian Media
Check out an excellent post Chinese Church Voices: 10 Observed Trends on Chinese Christian Media....
July 2013
July 30, 2013
Explaining Different Gospel Presentations in the Bible (OT, Jesus, Paul)
I had a student in class who questioned how I could say that the gospel...
July 26, 2013
Are We Naked or Do We Just Feel That Way?
Is there a difference between feeling naked and actually being naked? Over at the Gospel...
July 25, 2013
Chinese Evangelism: Telling Only Half the Story?
Being half right also means being half wrong. Few people are eager to live in...
July 23, 2013
Chinese Evangelism: Deep in Tradition, Shallow in Theology?
It's a lot easier to memorize a gospel presentation than to understand it. That seems...
July 18, 2013
Chinese Evangelism: What Comes First?
Chinese evangelism can often struggle to put first things first. When this happens, even if...
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