About Christianity

The Hospitality Center for Chinese is a Christian ministry. This means that Jesus Christ is the reason and source of everything we do and believe. HCC’s mission is to share Christ's love through hospitality to Chinese students, scholars, and their families. We believe that God loves you and desires to speak to you, heal and forgive you and to bring you into a holy relationship with Him through Jesus.

华人咨询接待中心(HCC)是一个基督教事工。耶稣基督是我们工作和信仰的原因和源泉。HCC的使命是通过接待华人学生，学者，及其家人来分享基督的爱。我们相信神爱你们，并渴望与你们交流，医治，赦免你们，并通过耶稣将你们带入与他圣洁的关系当中。请您花一分钟的时间读一读下面对基督教信仰的简短解释

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What is Christianity?

什么是基督教？

Christianity is all about Christ. Christians believe that God has revealed Himself to the world through His son, Jesus Christ. If you want to know God – look at Jesus and what He did and said, look at how He died and rose to life again. Jesus lived a life of perfect love, healing the sick, speaking the truth, and living in perfect obedience to God. But Jesus was killed by the very people He served. Yet Jesus willingly died in order to show us the depth of God’s love and commitment to a broken and hostile world. Three days later Jesus rose from the grave, showing that He has victory over death and evil.

基督教讲的就是关于基督的事情。基督徒相信神通过他的儿子耶稣基督将自己启示给世人。如果您要认识神，就看耶稣并他的所作所为，看他如何死在十架上，又如何复活。耶稣的一生充满全然的爱，他一生医病，宣讲真理，并完全顺服神。然而他却被他所服事的人杀害。但是耶稣甘愿牺牲为了向我们显明神长濶高深的爱并要救赎这个破碎敌对的世界。三天后耶稣从坟墓中复活，表明他战胜了死亡和罪恶。

Religions usually offer a map – and if you follow it you can get to paradise. Or religion offers a list of rules, and if you follow the rules you can be acceptable to God. Christianity is different. It offers a person, Jesus, who loves us and God who made us and knows us. Christianity does not teach techniques about how we can try to get to God; instead, the Bible proclaims the good news that God has already come to us, right where we are. We are weak, broken and sinful and we need someone to save us. This someone is Jesus, the son of God.

宗教通常只提供一个地图---如果你跟著地图走就可以到天堂。或者说宗教给人一套规则，如果你遵守规则，神就接受你。基督教却迥然不同。它给我们的是一个人，就是耶稣，他爱我们。神造了我们，他认识我们。基督教不是教我们如何到神那里去的技巧，圣经乃是宣告神已经来到我们这里，就在我们所処之地与我们相遇。我们软弱，破碎，犯罪，需要有一个人拯救我们。这个人就是耶稣，神的儿子。

Who is Jesus?

耶稣是谁?

Jesus was born 2000 years ago in the Middle East. He was a real, historical person. And yet Christians believe that Jesus is the eternal Lord who lives and who promises to be with His followers everyday. How can you meet Jesus? You can read the Bible, God’s word. You can ask a Christian person to tell you more about how to know and follow Jesus. (HCC staff and volunteers are always glad to listen to your questions and thoughts and to share their experience of God.) You can go to a church. You can pray, which is simply talking to God and ask Him to help you.

耶稣在两千年前降生在中东。他是一个真实的历史人物。然而，基督徒相信耶稣是活著的永生主，他应许他的信徒每天与他们同在。您如何认识耶稣呢？您可以读圣经，就是神的话语。您可以让一个已信主的人告诉您如何认识和跟随耶稣。（HCC的工作人员和义工们都很愿意倾听您的问题和想法，并和您分享他们对神的经历。）您也可以去一间教会，也可以祷告，祷告就是向神倾诉您的心声，请他来帮助您

Christian Churches

基督教会

The Christian church had its beginning in the Middle East but has had an impact on nearly every country in the world. In the U.S., the Christian church has had a profound influence on nearly every facet of our culture including business, government, education, movies, music, medicine, marriage, families and of course our individual lives. No taste of American culture would be complete without a visit to at least one of the many churches listed below. Each church has a personality of its own and almost all are delighted to have guests.

基督教起源于中东地区，但在过去的两千年影响了世界上所有国家。基督教对美国文化的各个方面都有着非常深远的影响，包括商业、政府、教育、电影、音乐、医药领域、婚姻、家庭，乃至个人生活。想要领略真正的美国文化，你应该至少去参加一下美国各个城市的教会。

The list below includes churches who are willing to provide a ride to services on Sunday mornings. Call for times of their Sunday morning services and request a ride if needed.

每个教会都有自己的特色，而且他们都非常欢迎新朋友的到来。如果你来到美国，对参加教会活动有兴趣，可以参照下面的教会信息，这些教会可以为中国朋友提供接送。如果你想参加周日早上的教会活动，可以随时打电话给以下教会的联系人，并向他们说明需要搭车的帮助。很多教会都有中国教友，有些还能提供中文服务。

Many of the churches listed already have regular Chinese attendees and some offer church services in Mandarin. We hope you will try out a church while you are here and learn why so many persons from all walks of life have come to be devoted followers of Jesus.

我们希望你能够尝试体验这里的教会活动，便能了解为什么有如此多的人都在追随主耶稣。

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