All materials can be freely reproduced with acknowledgement. I don t believe in Christianity, nor do I oppose it. I cannot see how this religion, begun in the Middle East 2,000 years ago, can have anything to do with civilized human beings living in the 20 th century. Today we live in the period of the information explosion. We have placed a man on the moon and seen a probe land on Mars.
Organ transplants and test tube babies are common.
Today, we are cloning sheep, tomorrow maybe humans. These are the words of the nephew of one evangelist in Beijing after she tried to share the Gospel message with him. They represent one of the typical challenges of evangelism which the church faces today in modern China. In March s edition of Tian Feng , the magazine of the Chinese church, several participants at the symposium from all areas of China and all levels within the church give their opinions on how the Chinese church needs to approach the task of evangelism today. Symposium participants all agreed that the basic purpose of any church is to spread the Gospel and bring people to a knowledge of God.