How Hudson Taylor Served In China

Some estimate that 70 percent of the worlds bible-believing Christians (as opposed to nominal or cultural Christians) now live in the majority world.”1 This reality should entirely changes the way we think about missions. If the greater part of Christians no longer live

1 in 6 adults residing in what was once among the most literate nations in the world have been deemed “functionally illiterate”. During the 1800s, over 90% of the former nations population could speak our native tongue. Currently, only about 0.2% of our population is fluent in the indigenous language. Welcome to Hawaiʻi!

Five missionaries, one plane, the Bible, and the Ecuadorian jungle;Elisabeth Elliot’s biography Through Gates of Splendor shows Jim Elliot’s experience in the Ecuadorian jungle. Jim and his four friends venture into the jungles of Ecuador to preach the bible to the fierce tribe of the Aucas. they manage to win the hearts of the Aucas and they preach the bible and manage to win some souls and baptize some Aucas. Unfortunately, not all Aucas believed what they were doing was right and they killed the missionaries. Elisabeth’s book Through Gates of Splendor teaches that in order to be a missionary, oneself needs or should have dedication and patience.

One of the men who made so much headway in China was a Jesuit named Ricci. Ricci was gifted, and knew the value of the gifts he possessed. As a linguist, Ricci used his western mnemonic techniques that were unfamiliar to the Chinese to impress the literati. The Chinese

The Taiping Uprising between 1850-1864. Its leaders rejected Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism alike, finding their ideology in a unique form of Christianity instead. (Original: p. 565; With Sources: p. 883)

Jim Elliot’s life and death influenced people to spread the gospel. God used his death to bring salvation to many Auca Indians and inspiration to thousands of believers worldwide. His death had an impact on people to go to other countries and share the love of Jesus. After his death, the mission to spread the gospel to the Auca Indians did not end. Two years after Jim Elliot’s death, his wife, Elizabeth, and daughter, Valerie, moved into the Auca village. Many Aucas became Christians and many missionaries still live with the Aucas today.

The well-known facts about this story are that five men, Jim Elliot, Roger Youderian, Nate Saint, Pete Fleming, and Ed McCully ventured to Ecuador in the mid 1950’s as missionaries, along with their wives, to share the Gospel with those who were out of reach of it. In the process, these five men lost their lives and the event became worldwide news. But in this

God’s Double Agent: The True Story of a Chinese Christian’s Fight for Freedom is a Christian biography in which former underground Chinese Christian pastor Bob Fu details his life and the moral atrocities that occur in Communist China.

Missionary expansion throughout the centuries has taken a hard, often violent road. The expansion of Christianity begins with the adherents of Jesus Christ and ended with the premature demise of many of the disciples. In the centuries following the disciples, many missionaries were faced with percussion and death as the gospel was proclaimed. As missionary expansion occurs throughout the centuries, often times facing trial and difficulty, the question comes up; is the capital cost of missionary expansion worth the monetary value? This paper will highlight many trials that have been faced by three missionaries in particular and explain often by the words of these missionaries why the enormous cost of missionary expansion is worth the cost. The thesis of this paper is: everyone is called to preach the gospel; the calling of the missionary is called to live by faith even when facing difficulty.

Nathan Price, a bigoted proselytizing baptist whose inability to perceive value in non-Western cultures and adapt to foreign ways of living and preaching his narrow-minded religion in the jungles of the Congo, is a harbinger for the ultimate failure of his entire mission. In comparison to Nathan, Tata Ndu the chief of Kilanga argues against Nathan’s superior approach towards the Congolese, “You believe we are mwana, your children, who knew nothing until you came here. Tata Price, I am an old man who learned from other old men." Tata Ndu shows that Western Christianity is ill fitted for the needs of the Congolese through criticizing Nathan’s pigheaded stubbornness and profound Western arrogance, “but you would have to know how to sit down and listen.” Tata Ndu values older people’s opinions and accepts knowledge that’s been passed down to him, whereas Nathan

In the first chapter of “Christianity Rediscovered” by Vincent J. Donovan he is introducing us to the idea that missionaries now have a poor reputation due to their history. He says “History has offered the opportunity to deflect and distort the meaning of missionary work in every age”. For a long time a missionary was a person spreading the word of God and after years of doing so we have diminished many different beliefs, practices, cultures and history. At the time it was thought to be the right thing, to spread out and share the gospel to help people find meaning and acceptance. In today’s age a missionary is a lot of different things, in many cases it is more focused on the health and physical wellbeing of the people. Many people still share the gospel through missionary work, but in other cases it is more of a material aid. Donovan introduces the book as a voyage of discovery he wants us to put our normal beliefs aside to see his perspective of living a missionaries life and struggling with the fact of if you are helping or hurting.

Hudson Taylor reached the peak of his ministry after many years in China. But soon after, he had a very sad time in his family life. Many of the children born to him and Maria, his wife, died due to disease or lack of nourishing food. Many factors made the lives of young children living in China in constant danger. This led Maria and Hudson to make the difficult decision to send their three surviving children to England to live. Not long after, Maria and a two week old son died due to malnutrition and Maria’s inability to nurse the child. Four of the eight children born to Maria and Hudson Taylor did not live beyond age ten.

God has a plan to reconcile His relationship with man after sin entered the world. This plan revolves around making His name known throughout all tribes and nations. From the Old Testament to the New Testament, the Bible presents God’s missionary purpose for humanity. For this reason, Christians involved in missions will travel to dangerous places to proclaim God’s name and saving power.

After fifty-two years of service, two wives, thirteen children, and a ministry called China Inland Mission this man has known what it is to be in need and what it is to have plenty. Although he had thirteen children, only eight of them lived past a week old, and only three lived old enough to tell the stories of their father and mother. While she was fulfilling God?s will in China, the first wife died just after her eighth son was born and two days after she learned that the other children made it back to England with their foster mom. After deep depression, severe weakness, and the retiring of who anchored CIM back in Europe, he

Brother Yun and Eric Liddell were both born in the 1900’s and were missionaries. Though they lived very different lives, they both gave up what was important to them in their earthly lives to gain a reward in their eternal lives and bring others to Christ. They were able to bring Jesus into their daily lives and fulfill his purpose for their life. Even when there were many hardships, they never gave up. When God called on them they answered, and they never missed or turned down an opportunity to bring the word of the Lord to someone in need of it.