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This Week's Prayer Guide

December 8 - This week, pray for churches in Xiamen and the work of the gospel there. Pray that believers there will know the love of Christ in their lives and will increasingly fall more in love with him.
December 9 - One pastor in Xiamen exhorts the church in China not to waste this season of persecution, but let God use it to refine the church. Nevertheless, he asks that we pray that this season of persecution would end.
December 10 - A pastor in Xiamen shares, “Because Xiamen is a tourist city, it is also a relatively comfortable and unambitious city. This also affects the culture of the church. Christians in Xiamen are more comfortable and satisfied with the status quo, and less enthusiastic about evangelism and church planting.” Pray for the Holy Spirit to inspire Christians in Xiamen to greater fervency.
December 11 - A pastor in Xiamen asks, “Pray for the church to maintain a fervent passion for evangelism. Because we spend more energy on things like Christian education, family education, internal discipleship, but in terms of proactively reaching out to non-believers the church's motivation is quite low.”
December 12 - A pastor asks us to pray that Christians in Xiamen will be “more rooted in the building of godly lives.” He says that the economic downturn in recent years, coupled with the various persecutions faced by the church, have made many brothers and sisters realize that they are not bearing good fruit and do not have good testimonies to share with people.
December 13 - A pastor in Xiamen says, “We are preparing for church planting. We are still exploring how we should lead a healthy church. But we're very grateful that in this process, we've started having elders’ joint learning, helping us in areas related to church structure and planting, and we especially emphasize our spiritual growth.” Pray that this process of church planting would help this church grow and mature.
December 14 - A pastor in Xiamen asks for prayer: “I hope that our church, through my learning and leadership, and that of the elders in training, can help the brothers and sisters in the church to go further in the seriousness of their faith.”

12月8日——本周,请为厦门的教堂和福音事工祈祷。愿那里的信徒在生活中感受到基督的爱,并越来越爱他。
12月9日——厦门的一位牧师劝告中国的教会不要浪费这个受逼迫的季节,而让上帝用逼迫来磨练教会。虽然如此,他也祈求这个受逼迫的季节会结束。
12月10日——厦门的一位牧师分享道:“因为厦门是一个旅游城市,所以它也是一个相对舒适且缺乏进取心的城市。这也影响了教会的文化。厦门的基督徒对现状感到更加舒适和满意,对传福音和建立教会的热情较低。” 祈求圣灵更加激励厦门基督徒的热情。
12月11日——厦门的一位牧师说:“请为教会保持传福音的热情祷告。因为我们把更多的精力花在了基督教教育、家庭教育、内部门徒训练等方面,但在主动向非信徒传福音方面,教会的动力却很低。”
12月12日——一位牧师要求我们为厦门的基督徒祈祷,希望他们“更加专注于建立敬虔的生活”。他说,近年来经济衰退,加上教会面临各种迫害,许多弟兄姐妹意识到他们没有结出好果子,也没有好的见证与人分享。
12月13日——厦门的一位牧师说:“我们正在为植堂做准备。我们仍在探索如何带领一个健康的教会。但我们非常感谢在这个过程中,我们开始跟长老们共同学习,帮助我们更深了解教会结构和植堂相关的领域,我们特别强调我们的属灵成长。” 祈求植堂这过程能够帮助该教会成长和成熟。
12月14日——厦门的一位牧师请求大家为他祷告:“我希望我们的教会能够通过我的学习和领导,以及正在接受培训的长老们,帮助教会的弟兄姐妹在信仰的虔诚里更进一步。”