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| Posted: 21 Mar 2013 03:00 AM PDT Throughout the month of March, we will be posting daily about Chinese Muslims, the prayer focus for our upcoming Secret Church gathering. We invite you to learn about Chinese Muslims and pray with us for God's glory to be made known among them. If you would like to read other posts in this blog series, you can find them here. If you missed yesterday’s post about the Chinese Church’s vision for church planting, you can read it here. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. (Matthew 28:19-20, ESV)  Photo Courtesy of Pray for the Hui In the 1940s small teams of Han believers who adopted Mark Ma's vision to reach the Muslims risked their lives by traveling as far as Qinghai and Xinjiang to share the Gospel. Some were imprisoned and died in the effort. The vision appeared to die for about 50 years while China went through the pain and upheaval of the Mao years and the church went underground. In John 12, Jesus teaches, "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds." The seed of the Gospel scattered across China in the last centuries and the blood of Chinese and foreign martyrs are fueling God's work in China today. There is now a huge potential workforce of financially poor, yet spiritually rich Han believers. Many of their leaders have committed to the Back to Jerusalem vision. With the help of foreign workers, Han churches have sent workers overseas to plant churches in predominantly Muslim nations. Now they are just beginning to train and send full-time workers to witness among the Muslim and Tibetan minorities within China as well. Unfortunately, although some Han churches realize the value of training their people to reach the Hui and gaining experience at home before sending them overseas, there is generally a lack of commitment to reach the Hui on the part of the Han church leaders. Could it be that God will use the Hui as well as the Han believers to take the gospel out of China to other Muslim people groups? PLEASE PRAY
This post was re-posted from Pray4Hui.com. For more information about and prayer requests for Chinese Muslims, please visit Pray for the Hui and follow @pray4hui on Twitter. |
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