In a recent gathering, I was asked a simple icebreaker: “If you could be like one thing, what would it be and why?” As my turn approached, I pondered the possibilities. I finally answered that I wish to be like salt. Salt possesses characteristic traits that mirror the kind of person I hope to become in Christ. Since that gathering, I’ve noticed more of the ways salt teaches spiritual lessons.
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A few years ago, I read Out of the Tiger’s Mouth, a biography of the late Reformed theologian Dr. Charles H. Chao. As someone of Chinese ethnicity, I was especially intrigued by his life story—he was among the first to translate and publish Reformed and Puritan literature into Chinese, making these works accessible to Chinese-speaking believers.
This book shares the story of Dr. Chao’s geographical journey from the East to the West, as well as his spiritual pilgrimage from his Christian conversion in China to his ordination as a minister in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA).
Despite persecution from Chinese Communists, Dr. Chao narrowly escaped from prison and death.
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