Old Estate, New Produce
On a recent trip to Europe, I visited many ancient sites—century-old towns, thousand-year-old streets, churches built centuries ago, and walls erected before the Common Era. Even as "ruins," one can still see the careful restoration, recovery, and maintenance, allowing visitors not to gaze with regretful lamentation, but with admiring wonder.
Along the way, I saw estates planted with grapes, olives, lemons, lavender... The estates have a long history yet still produce new wine and new oil every year. Abundant sunlight, timely rainfall, and productive land are favorable environmental conditions. However, what is indispensable is the estate owner's determined cultivation and continuous investment of time and effort, allowing the vines and branches to bear fruit year after year from the ancient soil, perpetually renewing.
This is the theme of this issue—Heritage + Innovation.
Parents providing for their children's daily needs is both a societal expectation and a legal responsibility. Beyond food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and bank savings, what else can parents—or rather should parents—give their children to faithfully fulfill their duty of managing kingdom resources? From the Stewardship section's "Teach to Fish, Not Give Fish—A Brief Discussion on Parents' Financial Responsibility to Their Children," we hope readers will be encouraged to pass on wealth with wisdom and love, along with values that align with truth.
Christians and churches through the ages have carried out the Great Commission with various wisdom, including creatively using the currently popular artificial intelligence (AI). How should you and I carefully discern various technological tools? And how can we let AI assist the church to achieve the purposes of worshiping God, connecting the body of Christ, and spreading the gospel widely? We hope readers will be inspired by the Neighbor section's "Let AI Serve the Church, Serve the Kingdom."
Can the traditional Spanish dance Flamenco also be used to express faith? Let's hear Jenny Chang, who treats everywhere as a stage and shines brightly at all times, tell her story: a lifelong pursuit of the passion God has given.
Is the church model recorded in the Book of Acts still applicable today, nearly two thousand years later? Let's look at the church founded in 2020 in Rowland Heights, California with vitality, influence, and heavenly power: Building a Church After God's Own Heart—The Growth Testimony of International Dynamic Envangelical Church.
Translation is a bridge between speakers of different languages; what is translated is not only the semantic meaning of words, but also the cultural implications. Let us consider the reminder to word workers and all Christian workers to live out the "language of the kingdom" with their lives every day: The Author and His Life in Translation."
This is the 80th issue of KRC magazine; since its founding in 2005, the team has carried on the mission, creatively proclaiming God's marvelous works in His kingdom through every article in every issue. God-people-things-self, multiple connections, abundant fruit—this is not only KRC's annual theme but also the commitment all coworkers uphold. Because He richly provides, we are willing to continuously cultivate the vines and branches in this estate, producing new wine and new oil year after year.
Dear readers, we sincerely invite you to continue the heritage and constantly innovate with KRC through reading, sharing, praying, and giving.