Excerpt: 'For nearly a century Chinese Christians have had the vision to carry the gospel “back to Jerusalem.” They believe that God has called them to evangelize the more than 5,000 unreached people groups that live along the old Silk Road between China and the ancient city where Christianity began with the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The Back to Jerusalem movement dates all the way back to the 1920's, when a group of Chinese Christians called the Jesus Family walked from village to village preaching the gospel. Their motto was “sacrifice, abandonment, poverty, suffering, death” [p. 39]. Although they were often persecuted for their faith, eventually some members of the group began to sense that God was calling them to carry the good news of Jesus Christ all the way to Jerusalem, and to establish churches in every community along the way. '
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Many of these are now published in 'My Father's World: Meditations on Christianity and Culture', 2002, and 'He Speaks to Me Everywhere', 2004, both by Philip Graham Ryken, P&R Publishing.
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Philip Graham Ryken is Senior Minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, where he has preached since 1995. He was educated at Wheaton College (IL), Westminster Theological Seminary (PA) and the University of Oxford (UK), from which he received his doctorate in...