Pastor Wayne Cordeiro of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawaii shared his personal accounts about his visit to China. He admired the authenticity, fervor, and passion of Chinese Christians standing to their faith even being faced with strong persecution from Chinese authorities. Pastor Cordeiro also had the chance to compare and share his observations about Churches in America and that of the Chinese Churches. Do you want to know the huge differences? Watch the video below!
Pastor Cordeiro went to Hunan Province to train church leaders. There were 22 attendees and many of whom rode by train 13 hours to get to the event. This gathering was held secretly in a hotel room. They all sat on a hardwood floor as he taught all day long, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with no air-condition! Are you able to withstand such?
Wayne Cordeiro and the Chinese Underground Churches
Chinese Churches Compared American
“You guys rode a train for 13 hours to get here. In my country, if you’ve got to drive more than an hour, people don’t come. You sat on a wooden floor for three days. In my country, if people have to sit more than 40 minutes, they leave. You sat not only here for three days on a hard wooden floor, but you did it without air conditioning. In my country, if it’s not padded pews and air conditioning, people don’t often come back,” he continued. “In my country, we have an average of two Bibles per family. We don’t read any of them. You hardly have any Bibles, and you memorize them from pieces of paper.” – Pastor Wayne Cordeiro
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