An American Chinese ministry leader shared the mission strategy of Moon Lottie in the “2022 Chinese Missionary Mobilization Conference - Commemorating the 110th Anniversary of Lottie Moon's Martyrdom in China''.
Dr. Evan Liu, director of the Chicago Chinese Servant Leadership Center, gave a lecture titled “See Transformation of the Chinese Mission from Recalling of Mission Strategy of Lottie Moon” on September 24, sharing his thoughts and views of the mission.
Lottie Moon rode a donkey from Dengzhou (in Penglai now) to Pingdu in Shandong to preach in 1885, being the first Western single woman to preach the gospel in inland China. She established more than 40 girls' schools in Pingdu and more than 30 churches, helping local women out of the custom of foot binding. She brought apple seeds from Virginia in her backyard to Penglai and prayed that the Baptists would send more missionaries to China.
Dr. Liu summarized the main mission strategies of renowned Baptist missionary Lottie Moon.
Lottie Moon wore Chinese clothes, mastered the official dialect and Penglai dialect, and had a Chinese name that was easily accepted by the locals.
Known as “Miss Biscuit”, Moon often gave away biscuits she baked to children and then got to know their mothers, building the bridge for the gospel with her loving deeds.
Riding a donkey from village to village, she entered the homes of peaceful people, greeting them and answering questions they had asked.
Apart from training disciples, she established many female missionary groups to draw women into the missionary movement, including the “Women's Mission Association”, which raised $3315.26 in the first Christmas Mission Offering, enough to send three missionaries to China at that time. Calling on all Southern Baptist churches to participate in the mission, she organized groups to pray for overseas missionaries. To support foreign missionaries, many Southern Baptist churches made special donations since Christmas 1888, which were officially named "Lottie Moon Christmas Offerings" in 1918.
Having donated all her food to victims during a famine in Shandong in 1912, she died of chronic starvation on the boat at the port of Kobe in Japan, as she fainted from starvation and was sent back to the United States to receive treatment.
According to the mission theory of Steven Bailey, professor of the Department of Mission at Asbury Theological Seminary in the United States, Dr. Liu classified churches into four categories, with the degree of unity as the horizontal axis and the degree of vision as the vertical axis. With great vision and high unity, some were kingdom-expanding churches, such as the churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia. With high unity and low vision, some churches have lived a comfortable life, including the churches of Pergamum, Thyatira, and Laodicea. Like the Church of Ephesus, ministry-oriented churches had great vision and low unity. Like the Church of Sardis, spiritually unhealthy churches had low vision and low unity. The first and third ones are mission-oriented churches.
Dr. Liu believed that without outreach, even cross-community or cross-cultural churches would gradually decline, become aging, have internal friction, and be easily attacked by enemies. A powerful country might also be a strong mission country, such as the United States, South Korea, and Singapore. He encouraged the Chinese church to conduct missions, with more believers standing up to serve God.
The doctor analyzed the distribution of Christian beliefs in China. At present, religions in China with high density are Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Protestantism, and Catholicism. While the number of Catholics is estimated at about 22 million (including members of house churches and registered churches), the optimistic estimate of Protestants is 78 million (including believers in house churches and registered churches). The number of Orthodox believers in China is about 100,000, most of whom are in Northeast China, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong. There are 21 seminaries in China with a total of about 5,000 students, while about 10,000 students graduate from 400 seminaries in Korea to serve in churches every year.
From the 1990s to 2000, Chinese Christians accounted for 15%-20% of the total population of Chinese in the United States. Now, 5.5 million Chinese live in the United States. Liu stated that overseas Chinese were diaspora missionaries who could bear witness to the Lord. Though they were travelers and foreigners on earth, they had a beautiful heavenly home.
According to a Southern Baptist Convention survey, the top three countries in the world with the highest percentage of people who do not know the one true God are India, China, and the United States. The United States is heavily secularized and full of pantheism, polytheism, and supernaturalism. Dr. Liu appealed to Chinese Christians in America to share the gospel to fulfill their responsibility.
Dr. Liu also introduced scholars’ views on missions, such as the hot spots of mission revival located in the Southern Hemisphere, the revival of faith in the Eastern Hemisphere, the church mission to expand the kingdom of God, the church (holy temple) and mission, the intermediate level of the supernatural realm, the confrontation of power, and the biblical view of time and space in multiple worlds.
In addition, he introduced several mission models, including the Three Silk Roads Mission (Steppe Silk Road, Desert Oasis Silk Road, and Maritime Silk Road), the High-speed Rail Mission to Central Asia and Southeast Asia, and prayer warriors who prayed for the mission.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
在纪念慕拉第对华宣教殉道110周年的华人宣教动员大会上，芝加哥华仆领导力中心主任刘主生博士分享慕拉第的宣教策略。
9月24日，在2022华人宣教动员大会——纪念慕拉第对华宣教殉道110周年”线上大会，刘主生博士以“华人百年宣教格局转化，从慕拉第百年前宣教见证到如今的回溯”为题，为大家分享了他的一些宣教思考和观点.
1885年，慕拉第骑着驴从登州到平度宣教，开创了西方单身女性前往中国内陆宣教的第一人。她在平度建立了40多间女子学校，并帮助当地的妇女解决了裹足的陋习，同时还建立了30多间教会。此外，慕拉第还曾将自家后院弗吉尼亚州的苹果种子带给蓬莱，并且常常祷告浸信会差派更多的宣教士到中国来。
刘博士概括并总结了宣教士慕拉第的主要宣教策略，包括：
1. 进入文化、掌握习俗
慕拉第在中国宣教穿中国人的衣服，打扮成中国人，熟练掌握官话，还能讲一口流利的蓬莱土话，并且给自己起了一个容易被当地人接受的中国名字。
2.关怀与勇气
慕拉第又被称为饼干小姐，因为她常常摆放自己烘焙的饼干，让那些小孩子可以去吃，进而结出孩子们的母亲，用爱的方式来建立福音的桥梁。
3.效法耶稣，进入和平之家
慕拉第经常骑着毛驴走村串户，到处寻找和平之家，进入那些纯朴的平民百姓家里，向他们问安，并且回答他们任何问题。
4.建立稳固的后方关系
慕拉第培养不少门徒，除此以外也建立了不少女性为主的宣教团体。她呼吁美南浸信会全教会行动起来，不只是金钱方面的奉献支持，也组织祷告小组为海外宣教士祷告，鼓励妇女们投身与宣教的运动当中。她的呼吁催生了“妇女宣教联会”，在第一次“圣诞节宣教奉献”筹集了3315.26美元，在当时足够差派3位宣教士去中国。自1888年期，美南浸信会许多教会每年圣诞节都会进行圣诞宣教，1918年正式命名为“慕拉第圣诞奉献”，专门用来支持海外宣教士
5.甘愿牺牲、常常代祷
1912年山东大饥荒，慕拉第把所有食物都给了灾民。12月1日，慕拉第因饥饿昏倒在船上，在当地无力救治情况下，她被送回美国。当船行日本神户港时，慕拉第因长期饥饿病逝。
而根据美国阿斯伯里神学院的宣教系教授史蒂芬·贝利的宣教理论，刘博士做出了一个新的教会分类：以合一度为横轴、异象度为纵轴，形成了4种形式的教会：国度拓展型教会（高异象、高合一），例如士每拿教会、非拉铁非教会；舒适型教会（高合一、低异象），例如别迦摩教会、推雅推喇教会、老底嘉教会；事工导向型教会（高异象、低合一），例如以弗所教会；属灵不健康型教会（低异象、低合一），例如：撒狄教会。而国度拓展型教会和事工导向型教会都属于宣教型教会。
刘博士认为没有向外宣教，无论跨社区还是跨文化的教会都会逐渐衰落、老龄化或者内耗，被仇敌轻易攻击。一个实力强大的国家也是宣教强大的国家，例如美国、韩国、新加坡。他鼓励华人教会成为一个宣教型的教会，这会让教会更多的人得着呼召站立起来。
刘博士分析了一下中国基督徒的信仰分布情况。中国目前宗教密集度较高的依次是佛教、道教、伊斯兰教、基督新教和天主教。而天主教信徒乐观估计为2200万左右（包括家庭和三自教会的人数），基督新教信徒乐观估计为7800万（包括家庭和三自教会的人数），东正教信徒在中国约为10万左右，大部分在东北、深圳、香港一带。中国神学院共有21所，共有5000左右的学生，而韩国有400个神学院，每年有1万名左右的韩国学生毕业进入教会服事。
而美国海外华人目前有550万，90年代到2000年那个阶段，中国大陆来美信主的比例占总人数的15%-20%。刘博士认为海外华人都是散居宣教者，他们虽然是一个客旅、寄居者，但是他们却有一个共同的美好的天上的家。无论在哪里，都可以为主作见证。
据南方浸信会调查表明，全球没有认识独一真神上帝概念人口比例最高的前三个国家是印度、中国和美国。美国世俗化严重，也进入到泛神论、多神论和灵异论的环境。刘博士呼吁美国华人基督徒见证福音，这是他们的责任。
刘博士还简要介绍了全球各个学者的宣教学观点，包括宣教复兴热点在南半球、东半球国家的信仰在复兴、教会宣教就是教会圣殿在地球上的神国拓展、教会圣殿与宣教、超自然领域的中间层次、权利对峙、符合圣经的多重世界时空观。
此外，他还介绍了几种宣教模式，三条丝路的宣教(草原丝绸之路、沙漠绿洲丝绸之路和海上丝绸之路)、通向中亚洲和东南亚的高铁宣教、成为为宣教祷告的代祷勇士等。
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特写| 华人百年宣教格局转化，从慕拉第百年前宣教见证到如今的回溯
An American Chinese ministry leader shared the mission strategy of Moon Lottie in the “2022 Chinese Missionary Mobilization Conference - Commemorating the 110th Anniversary of Lottie Moon's Martyrdom in China''.
Dr. Evan Liu, director of the Chicago Chinese Servant Leadership Center, gave a lecture titled “See Transformation of the Chinese Mission from Recalling of Mission Strategy of Lottie Moon” on September 24, sharing his thoughts and views of the mission.
Lottie Moon rode a donkey from Dengzhou (in Penglai now) to Pingdu in Shandong to preach in 1885, being the first Western single woman to preach the gospel in inland China. She established more than 40 girls' schools in Pingdu and more than 30 churches, helping local women out of the custom of foot binding. She brought apple seeds from Virginia in her backyard to Penglai and prayed that the Baptists would send more missionaries to China.
Dr. Liu summarized the main mission strategies of renowned Baptist missionary Lottie Moon.
Lottie Moon wore Chinese clothes, mastered the official dialect and Penglai dialect, and had a Chinese name that was easily accepted by the locals.
Known as “Miss Biscuit”, Moon often gave away biscuits she baked to children and then got to know their mothers, building the bridge for the gospel with her loving deeds.
Riding a donkey from village to village, she entered the homes of peaceful people, greeting them and answering questions they had asked.
Apart from training disciples, she established many female missionary groups to draw women into the missionary movement, including the “Women's Mission Association”, which raised $3315.26 in the first Christmas Mission Offering, enough to send three missionaries to China at that time. Calling on all Southern Baptist churches to participate in the mission, she organized groups to pray for overseas missionaries. To support foreign missionaries, many Southern Baptist churches made special donations since Christmas 1888, which were officially named "Lottie Moon Christmas Offerings" in 1918.
Having donated all her food to victims during a famine in Shandong in 1912, she died of chronic starvation on the boat at the port of Kobe in Japan, as she fainted from starvation and was sent back to the United States to receive treatment.
According to the mission theory of Steven Bailey, professor of the Department of Mission at Asbury Theological Seminary in the United States, Dr. Liu classified churches into four categories, with the degree of unity as the horizontal axis and the degree of vision as the vertical axis. With great vision and high unity, some were kingdom-expanding churches, such as the churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia. With high unity and low vision, some churches have lived a comfortable life, including the churches of Pergamum, Thyatira, and Laodicea. Like the Church of Ephesus, ministry-oriented churches had great vision and low unity. Like the Church of Sardis, spiritually unhealthy churches had low vision and low unity. The first and third ones are mission-oriented churches.
Dr. Liu believed that without outreach, even cross-community or cross-cultural churches would gradually decline, become aging, have internal friction, and be easily attacked by enemies. A powerful country might also be a strong mission country, such as the United States, South Korea, and Singapore. He encouraged the Chinese church to conduct missions, with more believers standing up to serve God.
The doctor analyzed the distribution of Christian beliefs in China. At present, religions in China with high density are Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Protestantism, and Catholicism. While the number of Catholics is estimated at about 22 million (including members of house churches and registered churches), the optimistic estimate of Protestants is 78 million (including believers in house churches and registered churches). The number of Orthodox believers in China is about 100,000, most of whom are in Northeast China, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong. There are 21 seminaries in China with a total of about 5,000 students, while about 10,000 students graduate from 400 seminaries in Korea to serve in churches every year.
From the 1990s to 2000, Chinese Christians accounted for 15%-20% of the total population of Chinese in the United States. Now, 5.5 million Chinese live in the United States. Liu stated that overseas Chinese were diaspora missionaries who could bear witness to the Lord. Though they were travelers and foreigners on earth, they had a beautiful heavenly home.
According to a Southern Baptist Convention survey, the top three countries in the world with the highest percentage of people who do not know the one true God are India, China, and the United States. The United States is heavily secularized and full of pantheism, polytheism, and supernaturalism. Dr. Liu appealed to Chinese Christians in America to share the gospel to fulfill their responsibility.
Dr. Liu also introduced scholars’ views on missions, such as the hot spots of mission revival located in the Southern Hemisphere, the revival of faith in the Eastern Hemisphere, the church mission to expand the kingdom of God, the church (holy temple) and mission, the intermediate level of the supernatural realm, the confrontation of power, and the biblical view of time and space in multiple worlds.
In addition, he introduced several mission models, including the Three Silk Roads Mission (Steppe Silk Road, Desert Oasis Silk Road, and Maritime Silk Road), the High-speed Rail Mission to Central Asia and Southeast Asia, and prayer warriors who prayed for the mission.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
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