More Prostitutes or Pastors in China? / Near Death on New Year's in Tibet (The Prison Pulpit #11) [China Compass]
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🗓️ 1 January 2025
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Summary
Welcome to this New Year's mashup edition of China Compass and the Prison Pulpit!
Nearly every week, I mention the Appendix to my little book, Unbeaten, which details my arrest, interrogation, and deportation from China in 2018. This appendix, entitled Remember My Chains, is the written version of a message I’ve given all over the world about how to pray for the persecuted church.
You can get my book and the sermon, Remember My Chains, at Unbeaten.vip, or read it for free on Substack where it was just posted yesterday: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/remember-my-chains
The following notes follow the basic flow of today's podcast...
Borden of Yale: The Millionaire Missionary
William Borden’s plea for more missionaries to serve in China:
Beginning in September, he managed to visit at least thirty colleges and seminaries before sailing for Egypt in December. Spending one to three days in each place gave opportunities for private conversations as well as meetings. On many occasions, with the background of his experience at sea he would ask, “Are you steering or drifting?”
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Often Borden would meet one to whom it seemed too high, with another question:
“Are you willing to be made willing?”
“If ten men are carrying a log…nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end, and you want to help, which end will you lift on?”
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In proportion to the population at the time, there were five hundred times as many ministers of the gospel in the United States as there were ordained missionaries in China.
Wang Yi on the need for more evangelistic, church planting pastors in China:
"Our churches are becoming crowded with middle class professionals. The gospel needs to enter the city more deeply. It must enter the drains, enter in with the petitioners and the marginalized peoples.
If your church still has no pastors; if there are no pastors in your city, your community, or even your street; if your company has a GM but there is no pastor there; if the university you work for has a Party committee secretary but there is no pastor, then I must ask: do you know the average ratio of prostitutes to pastors in China? Do you know the ratio of thieves to pastors, of corrupt officials to pastors?"
Wang Yi’s New Year’s (Twenty Year) Resolutions...
Read the full letter: https://chinacall.substack.com/p/wang-yi-family-newsletter-11-27-2018
A Couple of New Year’s Stories from Northwest China:
7 or 8 years ago tonight, my team and I got chased all over a Chinese village on New Year’s Eve…
19 years ago tonight my father and I almost got ourselves killed in China, in more ways than one…
Recommended Resource:
Borden of Yale: The Millionaire Missionary BordenofYale.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the China Compass podcast. This is your host. I'm your host, missionary bin. This episode is supposed to be prison pulpit number 11 if you're counting which I am |
| 0:25.1 | probably nobody else is but this might end up being sort of a mashup between prison |
| 0:31.4 | pulpit and our normal podcast that I try to drop on the weekends I do not know if I'll |
| 0:35.5 | have time this weekend to drop a new episode. We'll see how |
| 0:39.5 | this one goes and what I have time to do later in the week as I'll be traveling, driving quite a bit |
| 0:45.5 | and involved in a conference quite extensively as well. Happy New Year, by the way. I'm actually |
| 0:52.8 | recording this late on New Year's Eve, so it is not quite New Year's here in Oklahoma. It is on the East Coast, and it has already been New Year's in China for 12 hours or so, although they don't care as much about our normal New Year. They go by the Chinese New Year, |
| 1:13.1 | which is still a few weeks away, a month or more away. I might get to a story at the very end |
| 1:18.6 | about a particular night New Year's Eve in China where I took that for granted that they weren't |
| 1:24.5 | going to be up and celebrating. And they actually were up in that particular village and that put us in a little bit of trouble. Actually, you know what? That wasn't on |
| 1:31.1 | my list of stories to tell. But now that I've mentioned it, I better tell the story. I'll wait |
| 1:36.2 | and do it a little later. Though I've got a little bit of a story time here at the end. |
| 1:40.2 | Since this is really my regular prison pulpit time, I do have a word to share from Pastor Wang Yi, as well as something from Borden of Yale. |
| 1:51.4 | William Borden, who I've mentioned many times here. |
| 1:54.5 | He's actually a distant cousin of mine. |
| 1:56.5 | I didn't know that when I edited and helped republish his biography, but have found out since we |
| 2:03.5 | are actually distant cousins. And we have quite a bit in common, including being called to the |
| 2:08.4 | same exact prefecture in northwest China, albeit, you know, 100 years apart. But that's where |
| 2:14.9 | the Lord called both of us. And without knowing of each other's |
| 2:18.5 | called, I did not know his story when I was called and began to live and serve in that particular |
| 2:23.1 | region where he was attempting to go 100 years ago. Anyway, I'm going to get off track quickly |
| 2:28.2 | if I continue this. Before I get into the quotes I have today, the, what's the word, exhortations I have for you this |
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