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A Chinese pastor on how he was 'called out of Egypt' to a thriving urban ministry.

Interview by Rob Moll | posted 5/09/2008 08:12AM

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Has the government changed in its basic attitude toward Christianity?

Chinese government keeps one eye open, and they close the other eye. At the end of the 1990s, the Shanghai government issued very specific rules to limit house churches. It damaged the Shanghai house church.

In 2002 or 2003, a similar rule was issued in Beijing. Beijing officials wanted to control the house churches. But this rule needed approval from many other people who said they didn't think the rule was fair. So this rule was not approved, and Beijing house churches just grew without trouble. The new openness is a fact that no one can ignore.

Related Elsewhere:

Our May 2008 China coverage also includes:

Great Leap Forward | China is changing and so is its church. How new urban believers are shaping society in untold ways. (May 9, 2008)

Inside CT: The China Paradox | 'Embattled and thriving' Christianity in China. (May 9, 2008)

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Parker Shockley

Posted: May 20, 2008 3:52 PM


How about you uneducated tools go read something: http://www.abc.net.au/religion/stories/s1641406.htm

Rev.Singam.Singapore

Posted: May 19, 2008 11:24 AM

A very encouraging news about Chinese house Churches and the Chinese Christians. However, the danger of of presenting the Gospel on the basis of the inscription on the American Dollar " In God We Trust " and the Advancement of the west based on the Christian "Religion" will be misleading the Chinese People. A Faith that is not based upon the finished work of Christ on the Cross , and the Sinners need of Salvation and Grace is not a gospel at all. Rev.Singam Singapore

Ephrem Hagos

Posted: May 14, 2008 7:51 AM

If becoming a Christian (without knowing Christ at all) and starting a ministry (without any "charge of God's secret truths") continue as standards of evangelism, completely unlike the 1st Century Mediteranean world, it will not take as long as in Europe and in N. America before the rest of the world finds itself in a post-Christian era. The faster the riddance, the earlier the restoration of the faith in the self-revealing Christ!

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