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| | Chinese house church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Chinese house churches are unregistered Christian churches in the People's Republic of China, which operate independently of the government-run Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM) and China Christian Council (CCC) for Protestant groups and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CCPA) and the Chinese Catholic Bishops Council (CCBC) for Catholics. | | | The role of Catholic house churches is one of the major barriers to the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the People's Republic of China. | | | They are also known as the "Underground" Church or the "Unofficial" Church, although this is somewhat of a misnomer as they are collections of unrelated individual churches rather than a single unified church. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_house_church
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| | Chinese house church Chinese house churches are China Christian Council (CCC) for Protestant groups and the Chinese Cath... | | | Chinese constellation Chinese constellations are different from the western zodiac constellations are the 28 "Xiu" (... | | | Chinese calendar The Chinese calendar is a Mid-Autumn Festival and for divination. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/chinese.html
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| | New Zealand House Churches - Edgenet |
| | House churches should not be confused with "cell churches". | | | We are on the lookout for house church planters. | | | House church is an informal term for a group of Christians gathering regularly or spontaneously in a home instead of a building dedicated to the purpose. |
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http://www.edgenet.org.nz
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| | The concept of the church in the house is not a new one. | | | On the contrary, the house church is the church; the nucleus of the church's life and ministry. | | | House churches are begun to enable the Body of Christ to be the body of Christ. |
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http://www.pastornet.net.au/renewal/journal3/freeston.html
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| | As the daughter churches are coming of age, they are starting to question some apparent signs of theological senility in the mother churches. | | | Church membership, doctrine, Bible-reading and worship are tangential to their lives, valued only as far as they contribute to the task of changing the world. | | | The "daughter" churches have outgrown the "mother" churches. |
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| | The prodigious growth of the house church movement in China is one of the greatest phenomena in the 20th century. | | | The house church movement came out of the cauldron of this attempted politicising of the church. | | | The principle of selfresponsibility and selfsupport for missionplanted Churches was advocated in 1841 by Henry Venn, secretary of the Church Missionary Society. |
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http://www.pastornet.net.au/renewal/journal3/neild.html
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| | Chinese Churches in Global Missions |
| | It was through this persecution that the churches, strengthened in their spiritual lives, raised their capacity to overcome against all odds. | | | The Chinese churches are determined to join hands with their Western counterparts to deploy workers to mission fields worldwide as deliverers of the Great Commission’s last baton. | | | The revived churches have been powerful in signs and wonders and fervent in preaching the truth. |
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http://www.rcmi.ac/eng/html/newsletter/issue303/e_chinese.htm
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| | The recent development of the Chinese House Churches |
| | Although the urban house churches also have been growing rapidly at the same time, the revival they have witnessed is in no way comparable, in scale, to their rural counterparts. | | | The ultimate vision of the Chinese church is to step on the soil of every nation in Asia and the Middle East to bring the message of the gospel. | | | The house churches are growing rapidly in China. |
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http://www.rcmi.ac/eng/html/newsletter/oct00/e_the.htm
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| | Church Restoration - To First Century Christianity |
| | We are the Church of the Living God, of the Living God. | | | The Church Restoration web-site is dedicated to the encouragement of the whole Body of Christ and to the expanding of God’s Kingdom throughout the earth. | | | We began to sing my Chinese brother Noah’s song he taught me while he and I walked and sang at midnight on the dark streets of Shenyang, China, “We Are the Church of the Living God!” The words were “We are Church. |
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http://www.churchrestoration.org
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| | Four Keys for Understanding China |
| | Thus, when house churches refuse to register with the state church, it is not only a religious act, but at its very basis is viewed as a political act! | | | That’s why you can visit a house church in Shanghai and see members singing at the tops of their voices without fear, and why in Fancheng if they did the same, the police would be knocking on the door before the hymn was over. | | | His job then was to tempt Western evangelical leaders into engagement with the official church and weaken their links with the house churches in the process. |
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http://www.opendoors.org.au/pgs/artcl/art-ch2.htm
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| | Watchman Nee and the House Church Movement in China V |
| | Much that we associate with the Church is not found in Chinese house churches today. | | | Two things are clear: There are many house churches that are directly derived from Little Flock churches, and there are many other groups that owe a substantial debt to Little Flock doctrine and practice for their survival. | | | Watchman Nee and the House Church Movement in China V |
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http://www.xenos.org/essays/nee5.htm
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| | Hinn Invites Chinese House Churches ... To Death? |
| | Crouch, who preached in churches in Beijing and Shanghai in his previous visit to China years ago, said he has personally seen that Christians can openly practice and profess their faith in China, adding that the Bible is publicly printed and freely distributed. | | | One of the detainees, Jiang Quinggang, is a house church leader who has served two sentences in labor camps and was released last month, AP said. | | | TBN has been over there, and they were showing on their show all the pretty little churches, saying that the church is NOT being persecuted over there. |
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http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/hinnchina.html
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| | Religioscope - > Eastern Lightning in China |
| | But some house churches have developed in ways that are of concern to Western Christians, particularly as some of these groups are setting up operations in the U.S., according to several reports. | | | Chinese authorities as well as groups supporting the preaching of the Gospel to China have become extremely concerned by the rapid spread of a group called Eastern Lightning (or Lightning from the East, Dongfang Shandian in Chinese, from the title of its first book. | | | The group has not only targeted house church members, but is also reported to have made attempts to convert Catholic clergy. |
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http://www.religioscope.com/notes/2002/090_lightning.htm
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| | Testimonies of Faith - Habits of Holiness |
| | Here are three habits of holiness from the Chinese church we may wish to try in our own situation. | | | Using these lessons from the house churches of China, we too can grow in Christ and practice habits of holiness. | | | In the Western church, we are good at singing hymns with each other, but are we as good at singing hymns by ourselves? |
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http://www.opendoors.org.au/pgs/artcl/ff-ch3.htm
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| | The Heavenly Man, reviewed by Ruth Marlene Friesen |
| | The third time, a meeting of major house church leaders was compromised, and the police were waiting in their meeting room. | | | Eventually he was released, but Yun boldly went everywhere preaching, and their house churches grew and multiplied. | | | The Chinese house churches are busy preparing and sending missionaries, with a goal of 100,000 set aside for this thrust! |
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http://ruthes-secretroses.com/Library/bkreview/HeavenlyMan.shtml
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| | Escapee Denies Rape Charge - Christianity Today Magazine |
| | His South China Church emerged in the 1990s as one of the fastest growing and innovative of the church groups. | | | The Chinese government had made Liu, a prominent leader in the South China Church, one of their star witnesses. | | | Alarmed by the fast growth of the church and other religious groups, the Chinese government crafted a massive response of intelligence, arrests, imprisonment, and public relations. |
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/107/12.0.html
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| | Despite the Cost, Millions Flock to Chinese House Churches |
| | China outlaws churches that are not sanctioned by the government. | | | But despite the inherent dangers of professing faith in Jesus Christ, the Christian church in that country continues to grow. | | | Communist officials in China recently arrested a top house church leader. |
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http://news.christiansunite.com/Religion_News/religion02061.shtml
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| | Persecution of Christians |
| | Missionaries are allowed to proselytize, although the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints voluntarily refrains from doing so under an agreement with the Government. | | | Many have recently been canonized as saints following their death at the hands of Soviet authorities; they are collectively referred to in the Orthodox church as the "new martyrs". | | | In the 5th and 6th century, Arianism became prevalent among the Goths; during their forays into Italy, Gaul (France) and Spain they destroyed many churches and killed a number of Christian clergy. |
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http://www.fact-index.com/p/pe/persecution_of_christians.html
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| | Chinese House Church Leaders First Time Testify at UN, Video Testimony from Tortured Women Believers Released Boxun News |
| | In the retrial, the so-called rape victims were reduced to four, and their first names were not even mentioned, and some of the so-called ¡°hard¡± evidence against Pastor Gong mysteriously disappeared. | | | At least three believers were tortured to death, many men and women believers were tortured and many, especially women, were sexually abused and molested during their interrogation to obtain the false evidence against Pastor Gong.¡± In the first trial, Pastor Gong was accused of having raped 15 female members of his church. | | | Pastor Peter Xu calls upon Chinese government to stop all kinds of religious persecution for all believers. |
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http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/english/2004/04/200404021311.shtml
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| | Christian Persecution? What Can I Do? |
| | Read the list to your church when prayer requests are received. | | | Invite ICC Speakers: Have your church or group invite an ICC representative to share about the needs of the persecuted. | | | Or become a representative and speak in churches, speak on the radio, and take up the fight for the persecuted. |
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http://www.persecution.org/whatcanido/index.html
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| | The Great Separation: Pastor & Wife of House Churches Facing Life Imprisonment. |
| | The Chinese authority is especially unhappy about a house church quarterly magazine called Love Feast “AI YAN” (www.AiYan.org) in which pastor Cai has been involved. | | | Pastor Cai Zhuohua, a house church leader ministering to six house churches in Beijing will be formally tried in a Beijing court very soon. | | | Sources close to one of pastor Cai’s churches said the confiscated Bibles and other Christian literature were solely for internal house church-use and pastor Cai made no profit off them. |
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http://www.thegreatseparation.com/newsfront/2004/11/pastor_wife_of_.html
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| | Chinese House Church Leader Released |
| | VOM said has learned from the Public Security Bureau, the Chinese secret service and security agency, that, "Zhang doesn't have a criminal problem, he has a mind problem, he is too superstitious," in an apparent reference to his faith in Christ. | | | "We encourage Christians to continue their calls, faxes and letters to the Chinese embassy on behalf of Brother Zhang as well as brother Liu Feng-gang," said Nettleton. | | | "This is proof positive that Christians around the world CAN make a difference with their prayers and their phone calls and letters to the Chinese embassy," added VOM Spokesman Todd Nettleton. |
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http://www.mcjonline.com/news/03a/20031102d.shtml
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| | The GOD Driven Church |
| | Download and read The GOD Driven Church, use the information and if you are not 100% satisfied, simply let us know at any time within 90 days and we will refund your money immediately right there on the spot. | | | It is so controversial it will probably be banned in most churches. | | | Topics never before discussed openly in your home, work place or church. |
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http://www.thegoddrivenchurch.com
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| | A PROPHETIC ALLEGORY OF THE WOLF: FOR THE BENJAMIN COMPANY |
| | The church must stop using their "spiritual authority" to eliminate all those that they are jealous of, envious of, unforgiving toward, and the list could go on and on. | | | This ability for the church at Jerusalem to reach forth their own hand of friendship, and to hug Paul back and welcome him into their fellowship was a work of grace. | | | A false prophet or a true prophet of God whose message is being rejected by a self-serving church that doesn't want it's sin exposed, who to take a moral inventory of just why they'd want to resist the righteous rule of "God in Jesus Christ reconciling the world--- unto Himself." (2 Cor. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/wa/LARKOFTHEMORNING/page114.html
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| | ICC offers interns a wonderful opportunity to serve the Persecuted Church. | | | If you do not raise financial support for your position, then ICC will not provide a salary. |
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http://persecution.org/whatcanido/Intern.html
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| | Christianity Today Magazine |
| | Recent comments from Peter Akinola, Switchfoot, and Nationals outfielder Ryan Church. | | | University says Christian group can require beliefs, behavior of its members. | | | Christian pop/rock band Jars of Clay explains why the church needs more Redemption Songs. |
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http://ChristianityToday.com/ctmag
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| | Christian Persecution? What Can I Do? |
| | If you would like to get involved with serving the persecuted church by helping in one of these two ways, |
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http://www.persecution.org/whatcanido/Volunteer.html
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