10 Chinese Christians the Western Church Should Know

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No Child Left Behind Comes to Awana
The children's ministry rethinks the competition at its core.
Ted Olsen
One of the most important symbols in modern Christianity is a circle inside a square, its sides marked red, blue, green, and yellow, divided by diagonal lines. For some Christians, it is a literal mark of orthodoxy, a subtle indicator that a church teaches Scripture authoritatively and rigorously (and usually from a particular Reformed, premillennial, cessationist perspective). The square has changed little from its origins in the 1940s at the North Side Gospel Center in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. Church youth leader Art Rorheim had been having trouble with traditional two-team games as his youth group grew... continue reading >>

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