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What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
How does this information apply to missions and the American Born Chinese church? It applies in many ways.
According to George Barna's analysis of the same 2000 population data, there was no significant growth among ethnic churches in the last decade. The only exception is the 27% growth of the Asian American Churches.9 When we combine the economic purchasing power and the educational excellence of the Asian Americans in general and the Chinese Church in particular, we are talking about a great potential missionary force. At the last Urbana 2000 over 5,000 Asian Americans attended the missions conference. This was 27% of those attending. Over 1,000 Chinese Americans met during the conference, while others had to be turned away for lack of space.
Implications
"By the year 2025, the Chinese Church will take the Gospel back to Jerusalem." This prediction is unfolding before our eyes.
Those volunteers who survived the 1948 massacre when they first tried to cross the border of Western China prayed each night with their face to Jerusalem, that the Lord would preserve and keep the vision alive. One Sunday morning in 1998, after imprisonment for 40 years, Simeon Chiu was sitting in church service. That morning, a young preacher led the congregation to sing a hymn he had written 40 years ago for the Back to Jerusalem Gospel Band. The message challenged the members to take the baton and complete the race by taking the Gospel back to Jerusalem. Now an old man, Simeon could not help but weep throughout the worship service. The young preacher noticed his strange behavior and immediately after the service approached Simeon. Hardly able to speak, Simeon told the young preacher he wrote the hymn 40 years ago.
Today, there are a number of initiations to complete this vision of the Chinese Church. In fact, there are thousands who are ready and willing to go. God in His wisdom has allowed the responsibility of carrying the Gospel to the ends of the world to fall into the lap of Christians from a particular nation. In the first era of modern missions from 1792-1910 the European Christians dominated. America has taken the lead in the second era from 1865-1980.10 Missiologists believe that the Chinese Church will complete the race and finish the task.
In a team rally race, medals are won or lost during the transition. The most critical part of the race is during each transition when one runner hands the baton to the next. Dropping the baton or failing to hand it to the next runner within the prescribed distance will disqualify the whole team. The European and American churches have each paid the price and completed their part of the race. Will the Chinese Church drop the baton? I am glad to report that the baton is safe. Chinese churches in East Asia as well as the Mainland are now busy dreaming, recruiting, training, preparing and engaging in the task.
One question remains: "Will our brothers and sisters in the American Born Chinese church jump onto the train and join the rest of our team to complete this task?"
Some professional "headhunters" for mission agencies are worried and concerned about a trend they've observed. While there has been much talk and many activities and mission conferences organized by the Chinese American Church, we have yet to see the first wave of volunteers. Brian Leong of ESI reports that each year he recruits and trains over 100 volunteers for short-term ministry, but only half a dozen are Chinese or Asian. I spoke to over 20 interested individuals at a huge conference but found that only our Western brothers and sisters are ready to go. A year later only Western believers are on the field as career cross-cultural workers. Our Chinese believers are still home scouting the options. This is not to invalidate short-term missions or the efforts of churches; however, the overall picture is not encouraging. With so much "purchasing power" and "educational excellence,"
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Missionary Zeal of the Church in AsiaAccording to Operation World, the number of cross-cultural missionaries from East Asian countries totaled almost 18,000 in the year 2000.4 The conservative estimate for 2002 increased this number to approximately 25,000. Note that these figures do not include workers from China since we have no way of knowing how many more we can count on.
The conclusion is quite clear. The churches in East Asia are beginning to assume the missionary responsibility that our Western brothers predicted. The following are missionary mottos of the churches in East Asia. The Mongolian church missionary motto is "Taking the Gospel to the places that the Great Khan devastated."
The missionary motto of the church in China is "Taking the Gospel back to Jerusalem along the Silk Route."
In order to fulfill these two mottos the Gospel will need to reach the four resistance blocks of unreached people groups: Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist and atheist.
Potential of the American Born Chinese Church
In the last few months American Demographics Magazine released an analysis of the Chinese population from the 2000 national population census. According to these reports, 3.6% or 10,242,998 of the US population is Asian.5 While the national population grew only 6% from 1990 to 2000, the Asian population grew 107%. In the next five years the Asian segment will grow another 27% to 13,957,310.
We all know that the term Asian American can mean different things. The report provides a detailed break down of those who call themselves Asian into more than 20 subgroups. The Chinese form the largest subgroup with 2,734,841 individuals. To this figure we must add 144,795 from Taiwan, 18,566 from Malaysia, 2,394 from Singapore, and199 from Indonesia for a total of 2,900,795.6
"Crowning Cash Flow" and "Superlative Segment" are two terms used to describe the economic wealth of the Asian American. American Demographics also reports that a disproportionate 21.9% of Asian Americans earn $100,000 and above annually.7 The San Jose Mercury reports that the average annual income of Chinese citizens is $36,000 which is higher than the general population.
"Education-Asian American Excellence" is the subtitle for another major segment of the American Demographics report. 44.4% Asian Americans hold an under-graduate or higher degree as compared to 34.4% of the general population.
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
Taking the Gospel Back to Jerusalem--Missions Challenge for the ABC1 Churchby David Tan
Introduction
On November 25, 1942, Vice-Principal Mark Ma of the Northeast Bible College was praying and reading his Bible when he heard an audible voice telling him to set up an evangelistic band to take the Gospel back to Jerusalem. Since he was not a Pentecostal, he kept the encounter to himself for six months.
On the next Easter Sunday, April 25, 1943, Pastor Ma delivered a sermon about taking the Gospel back to Jerusalem. After the service, Miss Ho En Cheng, shared that she had received a similar call 10 years earlier.
Meanwhile, on the campus of Northeast Bible College, students gathered at the court yard that same morning to pray together. Each of these students heard a call to also take the Gospel back to Jerusalem. After praying, the students realized that they had each heard the same message from God.
Pastor Ma returned to the campus after his preaching to hear the students' exciting news. In consultation with the principal and staff of the college, the "Back to Jerusalem Gospel Band" was established.
God was also speaking to others around the nation. By 1948, a movement to take the Gospel "Back to Jerusalem" became the passionate cry of the Chinese Church. It is recorded that as many as 5,000 of these individuals with the same call from God walked from Northeastern China all the way to the Western China border. They were prepared to cross into the Islamic world. However, they were stopped at the border by the communist revolution. Most of the 5,000 were shot and killed, but those who survived were sentenced to 45 years imprisonment.2
Dr. Peter Wagner, former professor of Fuller Theological Seminary, spoke these words a number of years ago: "By the year 2025, the Chinese Church will take the Gospel back to Jerusalem." When I first heard these words, I thought Dr. Wagner might be patronizing the Chinese Church, but during our first term in Asia, we did see the beginning of this new wave of the future. Others also saw this mission. Dr Larry Keyes of Overseas Crusade predicted this new wave of workers in his book in 1985.3 Although Dr. Keyes did not specifically point to the Chinese Church as the leader of this mission, he did forecast it would be the Two-Thirds World Missionaries who would complete the task of bringing the Gospel back to Jerusalem.
As you can tell, hearing the above story filled my heart with excitement. Is it true that the Chinese Church will take the Gospel all the way back to Jerusalem and reach people who have been unreached along the way? What and where is the evidence of Dr. Wagner's foresight?
First, we must examine the missionary zeal of the church in Asia. Second, we must study the potential of the American Chinese Church to fulfill this mandate. Finally, we will make logical implications from these discoveries.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
I'm sorry, I momentarily forgot you think women deserve to be beaten at times.I should have known fraud and deception committed by an adjudicated rapist aren't going to register on your moral compass.
You can go back to making up stories to feel better about yourself, now.
There's no need to worry your little head about real things, like judgement orders in the public domain and what's actually going on under your little nose.
RE: Owning a piece of Trump... stock
Fundamentals will matter at some point. As of now it's a meme stock. I wouldn't touch it but that doesn't mean it won't go higher, for a while at least. Trump won't be able to sell any shares for 6 months because of lock-up.
RE: You Can't Make This Sh*t Up
"Next thing you know he will be selling his followers prayer mats...gold ones."I can't think of anything so profane since Pope Leo hustled Indulgences 600 years ago. As with gold-bling shoes, you have to sell X thousand copies to break even. What if you don't? A slimy skunk like T-Rump can simply neglect to fill orders. By the time his Useful Idiots realize they've been stiffed and sue for consumer fraud, they would have to get in line behind the financial institutions who are owed $ millions. But The Stall defense is still working. It's ironic that T-Rump is offering his dupes something they would have to actually read.
RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
I often visit South Africa too for Curry's electrical repairs. You couldn't make this stuff up Riz.
Owning a piece of Trump... stock
It's around $68 this morning.
How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
My uk bank uses a call centre in Manila, I joke with the operator that I know where he lives lolHow Trump is following Hitlers playbook
I live on Cebu island but not in Cebu city, I live in a small town far south of Cebu,I haven’t really noticed any difference since Marcos took over but the local police are getting busier hunting down drug sellers, Drug use is getting worse since Duterte, His methods were harsh but the drug scene almost disappeared now it’s returning sadly.
Worse is that Marcos has opened up various areas for American military. Duterte closed most of these sites down, he built a close relationship with the UK that has now gone, although the British SAS are still on certain islands searching for Islamic factions with local military.
The 'worm moon' lunar eclipse...
rob, many thanks for sharing. Those photos are spectacular!RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
How much white wash does it take to cover all his misdemeanors. If there was no truth in all the lies he thinks people spread about him he would be suing the a--e off them.RE: Not a terrorist act
Absolutely.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
What if I understand but don't care?I just said i'd support Biden if hes policies was good, despite he being a morally inferior
man to Trump.
Eat that hunny bee.
"do you not understand" ,,, haha that language u use on everybody here, who you think u are sis?
You're supporting the corrupt elite of DC indirectly by going after Trump.
You chose side, with the real baddies.
What part of the word corruption do YOU not understand. Get off your high horse.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
What part of fraud being against the law do you not understand?Is it why deceptive business practise is against the law?
RE: Not a terrorist act
In the wake of tragedy, politics has no place.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
And yet... we're not even looking at the two totally different politics these two men stand for.Only who stole more money and how.
If Trump is a small crook then Biden is a large one.
Can't prove it but its likely. Very likely.
- say now, that hypotetically Bidens policies was good, like Donalds... would I then support him instead... I probably would!
But here you have not only a good guy from NY but a good guy with good polices too!
You choice should be simple folks.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
A though business man from New york is my choice over someone who built up a fortuneon a congress mans salary, somehow..
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
Along those lines yes.
Cos its ok to get a tad too much in loan, and it's ok also to pay as little tax as possible, and rather reinvest that to create more jobs and activity in your city. Yes all for this.
And it should deffo not stop him from getting back in to the drivers seat of the white house. Jmo
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
I would fine him 1 dollar. Symbolically. And I think he would accept it, even if he only did what all business men from the big apple would do before him and after him also. This is seriously no biggie.But we seen before how they try catch him on anything. Anything.
Cos this is.... politics. Dirty politics.
He on the other hand is as clean as they come, so we want him in office.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
Hiya Snowy.
According to the order, Letitia James applied for 'monetary penalties and injunctive relief'.
The 'injunctive relief' are the sanctions against him: losing his business licence for three years, not being able to apply to certain lenders, the imposition of an independent monitor, etc. This is to stop him from continuing his fraudulent behaviour, it provides some time to sort out his sorry mess (Barbara Jones continues to find discrepancies) and I'm pretty sure Trump will see it as a punishment.
I haven't read the whole 92 page order yet, but so far I've found nothing there, or even in the media that suggests any of the 'monetary penalty' is punitive.
$354.9M is disgorgement.
$110M is interest because Trump wanted a trial rather than admit his fraud and because he delayed paying the bond to appeal.
In other words, if you thieve $10 out of the till, you pay back $10 plus interest and lose your job.
What Ozzie is suggesting is that you thieve $10 out of the till, you pay back 3 cents and get a pat on the back for learning your lessen.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
50.000 would be small change for Trump.RE: How Trump is following Hitlers playbook
I go there often via Talk Talk my phone and broadband provider.It's where their Customer Service is based
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
CONTINUEDThe word
“fraud” or “fraudulent” as used herein shall include any device,
scheme or artifice to defraud and any deception, misrepresentation,
concealment, suppression, false pretense, false promise or
unconscionable contractual provisions. This defines the word 'fraud' in the context of the statute. It clearly refers to a device like inflating/deflating property value for financial gain as well as many other devices. It's both precise and broad in the net it throws out to capture business deception.
The term “persistent fraud”
or “illegality” as used herein shall include continuance or carrying
on of any fraudulent or illegal act or conduct. The term “repeated”
as used herein shall include repetition of any separate and distinct
fraudulent or illegal act, or conduct which affects more than one
person. More definitions for clarity. This statute isn't for one off boo boo's.
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all monies
recovered or obtained under this subdivision by a state agency or
state official or employee acting in their official capacity shall be
subject to subdivision eleven of section four of the state finance law." As long as there isn't another law that says something different, any money awarded to the attorney general (or other official involved in the application) from the fraudulent person(s)/business can be seized from their assets if they fail to pay.
Is that a bit clearer?
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
From the order: the order that Judge Engoron wrote and I cited twice in this blog." Executive Law § 63(12) now reads as follows: in the order Judge Engoron describes the history and evolution of the statute and what it now states.
Whenever any person shall engage in repeated fraudulent or illegal
acts or otherwise demonstrate persistent fraud or illegality in the
carrying on, conducting or transaction of business, When someone commits persistent fraud...
the attorney
general may apply… for an order enjoining the continuance of such
business activity or of any fraudulent or illegal acts,...the attorney general can apply for an order that commands...
directing
restitution and damages and, in an appropriate case, cancelling any
certificate ...the fraud to pay back the money, pay for any harm done and if appropriate, stop that person from conducting business by revoking their licence.
filed under and by virtue of the provisions of section four
hundred forty of the former penal law or section one hundred thirty
of the general business law, These are the bits of law that say the attorney general can do the above.
and the court may award the relief
applied for or so much thereof as it may deem proper. The judge will then review the attorney general's application and award the amount of money/sanctions that they think is reasonable from within that application.
Nota bene, Judge Engoron didn't award everything that AG James applied for, just most of it.
RE: Not a terrorist act
Look at the speed of the lights flashing ........far too fast. You cannot compare this gif to the actual speed and you can also see the smoke pouring out from the cargo ship and lights flashing on and off as the whole ship suffered loss of power apparently.Deffo questions to be answered Conrad as apparently this cargo ship had a similar accident in Antwerp in 2016,
RE: You Can't Make This Sh*t Up
$59.99 for this shit stain bibleNext on his agenda will be a personal BJ
I wonder how much the orange dumpster will charge for one of those
RE: Not a terrorist act
In the GIF it sure looks like the Engines are at full power!RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
do you really understand that stuff you just posted?Or is it another one of your Copy/Paste that has no relevancy?
RE: Not a terrorist act
Officials have confirmed the ship that crashed into the bridge had issued a mayday call and had lost power.It had also dropped anchor before the accident.Questions have also been raised over the structure and supports to the bridge
The ship that struck the bridge on Tuesday was reported to have an issue with its propulsion in June.
Many questions need answers.
RE: God Bless the USA! Court Lowers Trump Bond From $464 Million to $175 Million. Due in 10 days.
not more obtuse than your argument!!Those two looting Lampreys have done more harm to the NY Business Climate than Trump ever can!
Now James is going after the biggest Beef-Producer in the world!
Better have some pretty good teeth,because those Guys might not ply as nice as Trump did!
as I said,Looting Election-interfering Bussards!
What Makes Jesus Unique? No one else made the claims that He did, He is alive...............
With so much "purchasing power" and "educational excellence," we need to see the first wave of pioneers from the American Born Chinese Church.We read in Acts that "during the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, 'Come over to Macedonia and help us'" (16:9). Throughout the past year, the Lord has laid the same invitation upon my heart-"Come over to Asia and help us." Won't you come and answer the invitation?