What the Church in China Teaches Us About the Ancient Jesus Movement

We sit with our own co-host, scholar in Chinese-American diplomatic history, and author of The Diplomacy of Migration, Dr. Meredith Oyen, to chat about the different contemporary expressions of the Church in China.  We then, well Pr. Matt, consider how the Church in China can inform how we read the Bible.  We look at Matthew 10, and we consider why the ancient Jesus movement was being persecuted by the powers-that-be.  The point here isn't to draw a parallel between the contempoary Church in China and the ancient Jesus movement, but to give us one more skill in our hermeneutical toolbox as we both interpret and apply ancient scriptures to our modern lives.