Development of Chinese Church Leaders PDF Download

Author: Otto Lui
Publisher: Langham Monographs
ISBN: 1907713468
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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Confucianism and its influence on culture in East Asia has profoundly impacted Chinese churches and the development of their leaders. As a cultural force it continues to affect the perceptions and practices of Chinese pastors and how they lead. This work seeks to build an indigenous approach to developing church leaders by understanding the theoretical, and the situational foundations, of relational leadership from both cultural and biblical perspectives. The research is further enriched through case studies and interviews observing the practices of leadership in contemporary Chinese churches.

Author: Otto Lui
Publisher: Langham Publishing
ISBN: 1907713484
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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Confucianism and its influence on culture in East Asia has profoundly impacted Chinese churches and the development of their leaders. As a cultural force it continues to affect the perceptions and practices of Chinese pastors and how they lead. This work seeks to build an indigenous approach to developing church leaders by understanding the theoretical, and the situational foundations, of relational leadership from both cultural and biblical perspectives. The research is further enriched through case studies and interviews observing the practices of leadership in contemporary Chinese churches.

Author: Hing Hung Otto Lui
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian leadership
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Under the strong impact of Confucianism, the Chinese churches today have their specific ways in developing church leaders. The study on the impact of cultural situations in affecting leadership development is necessary but not well developed in the previous studies on Chinese leadership. Therefore, this dissertation is an attempt to study and analyze the ways of developing followers in contemporary Chinese churches. The primary purpose of this dissertation is to develop an indigenous approach in developing church leaders in contemporary China. The impact of Confucianism as a cultural force in affecting the perceptions and practices of the Chinese pastors are discovered in this study. Based on the theories and case studies of the churches in mainland China, relational leadership is proved to be an effective indigenous pattern of leadership development in contemporary China. This dissertation is presented in four parts. Part I is a study of the understandings of relational leadership of different cultural perspectives. Part II is a study of the Chinese theological roots of relational leadership. Part III is the analysis of the field data which reflects the practice of relational leadership in contemporary Chinese churches and part IV is the final conclusion and overall significance of this research.

Author: G. Wright Doyle
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630878812
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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From 1807, when the first Protestant missionary arrived in China, to the 1920s, when a new phase of growth began, thousands of missionaries and Chinese Christians labored, often under very adverse conditions, to lay the groundwork for a solid, healthy, and self-sustaining Chinese church. Following an Introduction that sets the scene and surveys the entire period, Builders of the Chinese Church contains the stories of nine leading pioneers--seven missionaries and two Chinese. Here we meet Robert Morrison, the heroic translator; Liang Fa, the first Chinese evangelist; missionary-scholar James Legge; J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission; converted opium addict Pastor Hsi ("Overcomer of Demons"); Griffith John and Jonathan Goforth, both indefatigable preachers; and the idealistic advocates of education and reform, W. A. P. Martin and Timothy Richard. Readers will be inspired by their courage, devotion, and sheer perseverance in arduous work, and will gain an understanding of the roots of the two "branches" of today's Chinese Protestantism.

Author: Brother Yun
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830858555
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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The powerful spiritual vision of the Chinese church to send 100,000 missionaries across China's borders to complete the Great Commission, even in this generation.

Author: Danny Miller
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Do you have a passion for church leadership, missions, or revival? This intriguing and insightful book covers all three, in a land operating under a communist regime that continually increases their hardline policies against the church. And yet, under intense persecution, the church in China continues to increase at an amazing rate. This book takes you on an easy to read journey into the models and structure of the Chinese church. How do church leaders in China cope with church growth and revival? What models of the Chinese church leadership could we adopt in the West? Having served for several years as a national missions director. Danny Miller offers up an easy to read, compelling look into the life of the Chinese church within a twenty-first-century revival.

Author: Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190923482
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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In 1917, the Beijing silk merchant Wei Enbo's vision of Jesus sparked a religious revival, characterized by healings, exorcisms, tongues-speaking, and, most provocatively, a call for a return to authentic Christianity that challenged the Western missionary establishment in China. This revival gave rise to the True Jesus Church, China's first major native denomination. The church was one of the earliest Chinese expressions of the twentieth century charismatic and Pentecostal tradition which is now the dominant mode of twenty-first century Chinese Christianity. To understand the faith of millions of Chinese Christians today, we must understand how this particular form of Chinese community took root and flourished even throughout the wrenching changes and dislocations of the past century. The church's history links together key themes in modern Chinese social history, such as longstanding cultural exchange between China and the West, imperialism and globalization, game-changing advances in transport and communications technology, and the relationship between religious movements and the state in the late Qing (circa 1850-1911), Republican (1912-1949), and Communist (1950-present-day) eras. Vivid storytelling highlights shifts and tensions within Chinese society on a human scale. How did mounting foreign incursions and domestic crises pave the way for Wei Enbo, a rural farmhand, to become a wealthy merchant in the early 1900s? Why did women in the 1920s and 30s, such as an orphaned girl named Yang Zhendao, devote themselves so wholeheartedly to a patriarchal religious system? What kinds of pressures induced church leaders in a meeting in the 1950s to agree that "Comrade Stalin" had saved many more people than Jesus? This book tells the striking but also familiar tale of the promise and peril attending the collective pursuit of the extraordinary-how individuals within the True Jesus Church in China over the past century have sought to muster divine and human resources to transform their world.

Author: Michael D. Suman
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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This book addresses the emergence and development of the Chinese church as the body of Christ in China through the historical and sociopolitical context of that nation. The focus on the last half of the 20th century is supported by a concise overview of the political history of China from its dynastic era and international influence on its church history.

Author: Paul Hattaway
Publisher: William Carey Publishing
ISBN: 164508437X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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God’s Mighty Acts in China In The China Chronicles, Paul Hattaway draws on more than thirty years’ experience in China and numerous interviews with church leaders to provide insight into how the Living God brought about the largest revival in the history of Christianity. With more than 18 million believers—the largest number in any province in China—Henan has emerged as the Christian heart and soul of the world’s most populated country. In this book, the fifth in the series, Hattaway records the many attempts to reach the people of Henan with the gospel. The China Chronicles Series: Book 1: Shandong Book 2: Guizhou Book 3: Zhejang Book 4: Tibet Book 5: Henan Book 6: Xinjiang

Author: Mary Keng Mun Chung
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820451985
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Chinese Women in Christian Ministry uses an interdisciplinary (theological, historical, and anthropological) approach to analyze how theological and cultural factors have influenced attitudes about the place and role of women in the Chinese church and Christian ministry in Asia and in the West. The changing status and role of women in Chinese historical sociocultural contexts provide insights into the development of Confucian gender ideology and its impact on the Chinese. Western women missionaries with their Christian and cultural ideals became a catalyst for change in the gender role and mentality of Chinese women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Global women's issues have sparked a genuine concern among the Chinese leading to changing attitudes toward Chinese women in Christian ministry.