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November 2013

November 12, 2013

Talking about “Face” in Chinese

How do you use Mandarin to talk about honor and shame (i.e. “face”)? What if...

November 06, 2013

What if the rich, young ruler had been Chinese…?

Western Christians make a big deal of the rich young ruler story (Matt. 19:16–29; Mark...

November 04, 2013

Benny Hinn is Coming to China

This is a warning for those living anywhere near the Beijing and Shanghai areas. Benny...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

When Short-Term Workers Don’t Contextualize

Short-term volunteers are a major part of mission strategy. Long-term missionaries have mixed feelings about...

October 30, 2013

Contextualization Gone Wrong

Here's a beautiful example of what contextualization does not look like. Related articles The...

October 28, 2013

How many posts per week? (a poll)

Help me by taking a quick poll. Someone suggested that they needed more time...

October 24, 2013

A Chinese Perspective on Justification

How would I outline a Chinese perspective of justification? I could write a book on...

October 22, 2013

Theology is Like Making a Baby

In talking about justification, Paul first answers the who-question, then the how-question. That was the...

October 17, 2013

The "Old Perspective": Right Answer, Wrong Problem?

The traditional perspective on justification gives a right answer to the wrong question. As a...

October 15, 2013

The Problem of "Ascribed Righteousness"

Chinese culture may help us reconcile the "New Perspective on Paul" (NPP) and the traditional...

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...

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