Articles on Threefold Vision

My Inspiration from Rev. Jonathan Chao’s Three-fold Vision

Yujian Hong

It has been 20 years since Rev. Jonathan Chao passed away and left China Ministries International (CMI), which he founded. But for me, Pastor Chao is like one of the heroes of faith recorded in the Bible: "And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks." (Hebrews 11:4 ESV). The reason he has impressed me so firmly probably has to do with my personal background. I grew up during the Cultural Revolution and came to the US for graduate studies in the 1980s. Not long after, the Tiananmen Square massacre crushed my nationalistic pride, and soon, my pursuit of science and democracy was also disillusioned in my academics. It indeed was by God’s great mercy that I came to know Christ in the middle of these crises and became a Christian during the first wave of conversions among Chinese students in the early 1990s.

It has been 20 years since Rev. Jonathan Chao passed away and left China Ministries International (CMI), which he founded. But for me, Pastor Chao is like one of the heroes of faith recorded in the Bible: "And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks." (Hebrews 11:4 ESV). The reason he has impressed me so firmly probably has to do with my personal background. I grew up during the Cultural Revolution and came to the US for graduate studies in the 1980s. Not long after, the Tiananmen Square massacre crushed my nationalistic pride, and soon, my pursuit of science and democracy was also disillusioned in my academics. It indeed was by God’s great mercy that I came to know Christ in the middle of these crises and became a Christian during the first wave of conversions among Chinese students in the early 1990s. Continue Reading

A Response to Rev. Hong Yujian’s Article

Yu Chen

After the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform, Liang Qichao (1873-1929) went into exile in Japan and later traveled to Europe for studies. When the Republic of China was established, he returned to China and founded publications like the New Citizen Journal. He described his writing style as "The stroke of the pen often carries emotion, and the tip of the pen directly points to the conscience", which was known as the "New Citizen style". His journal was the essential reading for intellectuals. After reading Pastor Hong's article, I want to respond using Liang Qichao's writing style.Continue Reading