Even the most conservative analyst must acknowledge China is changing. This nation of 1.35 billion people—20 percent of the earth's population, boasting the world's second-largest economy and largest language group (Mandarin Chinese)—is experiencing not just change, but rapid and radical change. And as we survey the scene, the change of greatest importance is the astounding growth of the Christian faith in China.
Edited by Bruce Baugus, associate professor of philosophy and theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, China's Reforming Churches: Mission, Polity, and Ministry in the Next Christendom is a delightful, stimulating, and equally encouraging and sobering read about the growing Reformed church in China. As we've witnessed in the West with the "young, restless, Reformed movement," so in China there's been a reformation among Chinese churches. Not only has the Christian faith been growing in China, but Reformed distinctives in particular have been spreading among these churches.
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