Lack of Political Self-Awareness While affirming personal holiness, God also demands corporate holiness, a quality that is conspicuously absent in the Chinese American church. Unlike the individualistic American self, “the self in Confucian cultures is a relational self.”[ 25] The Confucian self locates itself in the complex web of relationships within the family, which in turn buttresses the authority of the state. Politically, Confucian cultures seek to preserve the status quo. The irony is that a large segment of the Chinese American Christian community has inherited the conservative leanings of both Confucianism and American society while claiming to be apolitical. Various other factors contribute to the apolitic stance of the Chinese American churches: biblical teaching that overlooks the social import of the gospel, wariness and indifference to political involvement, and the comfortable middle-class status of many Chinese Americans. Whatever the reasons, the Chinese American church needs to develop a biblically informed social conscience. For God’s holiness, as in the days of Amos and Micah, demands that we address the needs of the poor, the alien, and the disenfranchised. Otherwise, we will call down God’s judgment on ourselves. (1998-05-01). Global God, The: Multicultural Evangelical Views of God (Bridgepoint Books) (pp. 178-179). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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