Issue 98 How the Church in China Survived and Thrived in the 20th Century

The dynamic growth and unique challenges of modern Chinese Christianity

Missionaries in China were hampered by pressures from home, mistakes in leadership, and identification with the West, but they planted the seeds that would someday yield an astonishing harvest.

Some notable Christian workers in China.

Chinese evangelist John Sung was a man of tender conscience, constant self-examination, daily repentance, and unremitting pursuit of holiness.

Nee had a gift for calling people to a deeper spiritual life.

The birth of an "official" Chinese church helped Christianity thrive in public under political constraints

Marcus Cheng (Chen Chonggui, 1884–1963)

A nebulous religious freedom

The house-church movement survived persecution and created a surge of Christian growth across China

Wang Mingdao tried to build an independent Chinese church

The golden age of Protestantism in China

Chinese Catholics have endured devastating division in the past century

Early missionaries laid the groundwork for mass movements to Christ among the minority peoples of China

Through a century of political turmoil and disillusionment, waves of Chinese intellectuals have come to Christ

A third-generation Chinese Christian describes his journey from persecution to Communism to faith

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