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Made in China: The Next Mass Missionary Movement

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Made in China: The Next Mass Missionary Movement

Chinese Christians plan to send 20,000 missionaries by 2030.

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra/ DECEMBER 31, 2015

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Image: Courtesy of Mission China 2030

Five years ago, more than 200 Chinese Christian leaders were detainedbefore they could board flights to the most diverse gathering of evangelicals ever. Among the 4,000 leaders gathered in South Africa’s Cape Town for the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, their empty seats signified the Chinese church’s challenges in engaging world missions.

But instead of tamping down the Chinese church’s desire for missions, the Cape Town 2010 incident acted as a catalyst, bringing together the right leaders inside and outside China, ChinaSource president Brent Fulton says.


In 2011, 100 of those house church leaders made it to Seoul, South Korea, where the Lausanne Movement held a special conference for them. And this fall, about 850 Chinese leaders gathered for their own missions conference even closer to home. They announced from Hong Kong a long-discussed goal: to send 20,000 missionaries from China by the year 2030.


The number is enormous, especially for a country that has sent only a few hundred foreign missionaries so far. Of the world’s top six sending countries, four hover around the 20,000 mark, according to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC): France, Spain, Italy, and South Korea. Only the United States (127,000) and Brazil (34,000) send more. (CSGC counts Christians from all denominations. Other estimates vary.)


But nobody’s ruling China out.


“China always wins when it comes to numbers,” said Fulton, who recently authored China’s Urban Christians. “China has a huge church.” It’s hard to pinpoint the number of Christians in China since there’s no official count. The Pew Research Center estimated 67 million in 2010. CSGC, which includes growth from unofficial conversions, put the figure at 106 million in 2010, andpredicts more than 330 million by 2050.


By those numbers, reaching 20,000 shouldn’t be hard. The global average for Christians sending foreign missionaries is 175 per million, said CSGC’s Todd Johnson. If China has 100 million Christians, sending 17,500 would meet the average.


However, the Chinese church isn’t aiming for averages but repayment: Chinese leaders estimate about 20,000 missionaries have served in China since the days of Robert Morrison and Hudson Taylor.


“The idea of the 20,000 was based on a gospel debt or missional debt,” said 10/40 Window speaker and author Luis Bush, who addressed the Hong Kong conference.

“They see themselves as an extremity of Acts 1:8.”


When Paul was prohibited from going to Asia, the gospel turned westward to Europe and—eventually—to the Americas. When the gospel reached China, “the ends of the earth,” it had nowhere to go but back to Jerusalem, Bush said.


“They see this as a closure, completing the circle of missionary work around the world,” he said.


China’s big goal is reminiscent of South Korea’s pledge in the 1990s to raise 10,000 missionaries in 10 years. South Korean Christians met their goal in 2000 and raised it: they’re now aiming for 100,000 missionaries by 2030.


Adding 20,000 Chinese missionaries “will definitely be a shift in the gravity of Christianity and its impact for the world from the West to the East,” said David Ro, Lausanne’s international deputy director for East Asia.


While the two countries are culturally similar, China doesn’t have South Korea’s sense of independence and competitiveness, he said.



 

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Made in china christian fundamentalism or terrorism? Why they can't leave the rest alone?

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These mainland Chinese are so stupid. First they got brainwashed by Communist Mao and ended up miserable. Now they want to be brainwashed by retards and become idiots.
 

JohnTan

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Let's see if the chink missionaries can convert the Muslims into Christians.
 

zhihau

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Bloody hell, I thought China is organizing a mass orgy of epic proportions when I first read the title of this thread. 1.4 billion folks, imagine a scale like that! :eek::eek::eek:
 

frenchbriefs

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if kong hee repatriate to china after his prison sentence,he will be reborn as the second coming of kong hee and be the first billionaire pastor in the world.

then PAP will not dare to fuck with him,for i will strike down with great vengence and furious anger those who dare poison apostle kong's brothers and PAP shall know thy name is kong when he lays his vengeance upon thee.
 

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Bloody hell, I thought China is organizing a mass orgy of epic proportions when I first read the title of this thread. 1.4 billion folks, imagine a scale like that! :eek::eek::eek:

there are limits to such a sexploit: time, reload intervals, duration of each cum session, virility, random access to abalones, physical proximity, spatial adjacency, density, frequency of fuck. all parameters to consider when designing a 5g network. :p
 

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We need China on the good side to destroy the Satanic Cult of Islam. No other religion allows slavery, rape, genocide, torture, amputation, looting, piracy, corruption, and subjugation of minorities like Islam does. More and more Muslims are leaving the Satanic Cult and we should do more to ensure even more leave the Satanic teachings.
 

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We need China on the good side to destroy the Satanic Cult of Islam. No other religion allows slavery, rape, genocide, torture, amputation, looting, piracy, corruption, and subjugation of minorities like Islam does. More and more Muslims are leaving the Satanic Cult and we should do more to ensure even more leave the Satanic teachings.

God has raised up the PRC to stop the Muslims. Praise the Lord God almighty.
 

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God has raised up the PRC to stop the Muslims. Praise the Lord God almighty.

hristians should organise mass orgy for all so young ones can taste lau kway bu tonics and know wat's best for them. Lau kway bu tonics still the BEST!!
 

Asterix

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The 6th western killer app, Protestant work ethic, has been downloaded by China. Only dumbfark Sinkies prefer to be ruled by unethical PAP because they are kiasi, kiasu and kiaboh. Dumbfark Sinkies should help the world by becoming extinct quickly.

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Christian Extremists through Mass Missionary

The missionaries of Christianity have fanned out across the globe to do charitable works in the name of their religion -- and convert the heathen in the process. It appears they have not considered the practical consequences of increasing population and the resultant increases in poverty. Or increased unhappiness resulting from education in comparing tribe with the larger community with its education and medical miracles. Among peoples who were formerly content and self sufficient to the point of perpetuation of their closed societies. Bringing the evil of recognition of increased poverty along with the good of their charitable efforts.

So it is the few who carry the burden of thus spreading their religious faith. The zealots, if you will. And every faith has them: the few who aggressively wish to confer the peculiar advantages of their faith upon the larger community. But it should be noted
1) that the modern Christians pursue their missionary objectives by peaceful means using example, persuasion and charity rather than guns and terror and
2) various Christian sects or groupings, while competing for converts, live peacefully among neighbors of various sects.
 
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