Sunday, January 04, 2009

The Canaan Hymns - 迦南歌声



If you think those grandiose tales of the early apostles in the early church - doing wondrous miracles, spreading the gospels with much tears & blood - are something that we could only reminiscence today... think again.

Above is the story of a village girl - Xiao Min, whom God has raised miraculously to write hundreds of hymns for the Chinese underground church WITHOUT having any musical education or training. Like many of the Chinese underground church elders, Xiao Min has been jailed at least twice.

And interestingly, her hymns are "categorically" called: Songs of Canaan (迦南歌声). A reflection of Chinese Christians' heart for Israel and their love for the Jews.

Update @ Jan 6th:
As I read Acts 4 this morning, it strikes me how "applicable" is this verse for Xiao Min :)

Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus. (Acts 4:13)

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