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Under these conditions, what is a missionary allowed to do? Standing on a soapbox and preaching the Second Coming of Christ is definitely out, but most Christian workers in China recoil at such evangelical stereotypes. Few even want to be called missionaries, a term that rankles government officials. Generally, church-led development projects are permitted, as are teaching and health training, but overt proselytizing is not. If asked, foreign Christians can give a Bible to a friend but offering one unasked is frowned upon."If a teacher talks privately of Christianity, and a student decides to convert, that...
Even Christians who work within the system can find themselves in trouble. Goodspeed, the teacher in Hangzhou who belongs to the United Church of Christ, spent two years in the northern province of Shandong. She lent money to students to study abroad, and advised others on how to apply for scholarships. But she became increasingly frustrated when less-deserving but better-connected pupils consistently won the grants. One day, the Communist Youth League nominated one of her students for an award for helping save an orphan, but withdrew his name when it learned of his faith. School officials blamed Goodspeed...
...closing their eyes and bowing their heads in prayer. The first time, I ignored it. The second prayer I dismissed as charming. But when Rev. Graham's prayer of invocation finally ended in: "We pray this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen," I was thoroughly disgusted. The inauguration service (yes, service) was a blatant mockery of our supposed separation of church and state. To follow all this up, President Bush, the head of our secular country, made a speech that prayed to and thanked...
That's because Tubridy, currently Harvard's second-leading scorer and rebounder, watched her older sister Catherine star for the Lions for the past four years. Throughout her time at Christ the King High School in New York, Tricia did not miss a single one of her elder sister's home games...
...once central gift of tongues. Ashcroft has followed suit. Says his longtime friend, Assemblies official George Wood: "I have never in a service observed John expressing one of what we call the charismatic gifts." Nor does he mention them in his book, despite much talk of God and Christ. Instead, he is known as a writer of gospel songs and a punctilious churchgoer who once, while Missouri Governor, surprised a Sunday-school teacher in California by popping up in her classroom for tutelage--a profile that could fit any upstanding Evangelical. The same might be said of the role...