Week 5 - Monday

I found today's class to be really insightful. I particulary enjoyed seeing how the Gospel impacts the Chinese culture. I found it really interesting that Christianity grew faster after the missionaries were deported from China. Perhaps the foreign missionaries, by their methods, were actually keeping Christianity from being assimilated into Chinese culture. Therefore, when the missionaires left Christianity was developed and spread by its Chinese adherents in Chinese ways, thus causing the growth of the Church. This is interesting to me because this is so like the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was the power at work in the dispersion of the early church. When the Jews refused to accept the Gospel they forced Christianity out of Palestine and thereby aided the spread and growth of the Church. Certainly God used the missionaries to bring the Gospel but God did not need foreign missionaries to keep Christianity alive and well in China.