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As Chinese Christians circulate images of Psalm 65 and Numbers 6, here are three more Bible verses worth sharing.
The Chinese New Year is not only a festival of reunion, joy, blessing, and warmth for the Chinese people, but also a great time for Chinese Christians in China and overseas to actively share their faith with their fellow countrymen.
Every year when the lunar new year comes, many Chinese Christians send images containing words of blessing and a Bible verse or two on WeChat and other social media to wish their friends and relatives a happy new year, and also to give a positive testimony for Christian faith.
I paid special attention to which Bible verses appear most often in these memes, and found that in 2022 the most frequently used are the blessing verses of Psalm 65:11 and Numbers 6:24-26.
Yet there are many other Bible verses that can be connected to Chinese New Year celebrations. In addition to using these Bible verses in images of blessing, Christians can also meditate on these verses during the Chinese New Year to reflect on the meaning of God's grace, peace, new year, and reunion.
I also cannot help thinking about our global Christian brothers and sisters; perhaps the Chinese enthusiasm for sharing the gospel and Bible verses for the lunar new year can also be applied to their celebrations of January 1 on the Western calendar.
Below are my meditations upon select Bible verses for the lunar new year. I hope that they can serve as examples for non-Chinese Christians to see how Bible verses can be used for evangelism and devotional use during secular observances of the new year:
1) Psalm 65:11
“You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.”
The word bounty in this verse means “good things” in the original Hebrew, which directly refers to the yield of the earth. “Carts ...
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