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*THE COST OF PLANTING THE CHURCH IN CHINA*
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Text: Heb.
11:1, 2, 23-40; 12:1-3
Intro: Hot evening August 1979 in Shanghai.
To park.
“Guide,” students playing Rook.
Trolley bus with Margaret Sun.
Met Harry – “Hi, I’m Harry!” David Chen’s apartment (MBI graduate) – 4 years in prison.
Harry’s story of 12 years in prison.
History of planting the church in China is a story of torture, rape, beheading, murder of thousands of Christians and missionaries.
No greater testimony to the veracity of the promise of Jesus Christ that the “gates of hell” will not prevail against His church.
See also Psa. 76:10 Was it worth it?
I.
ROBERT MORRISON -- 1807
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Contacts with the west – opium
B. Canton (Guangzhou)
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No travel
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Language
iii.
Liang A-fa
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Bible translation in 12 years
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27 years – 10 converts
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HUDSON TAYLOR – 1853
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21 years old
B. Opium Wars 1838-40
i.
Unequal treaties
ii.
Five cities opened
C. Missionary Strategy: Chinese dress, housing, interior
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BOXER REBELLION – 1900
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Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists
B. Spring~/summer – 189 missionaries martyred, many beheaded
C. Average one martyr per month the next 30 years
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CENTENIAL OF MISSIONARY WORK
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Persecution
B. Cost
C. Total of 253, 000 Christians in 1907!!
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TWENTIETH CENTURY
A. 1900 – 1949
i.
Century began with great hope
ii.
Sun Yat-sen 1911
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Evangelistic Crusade in the Forbidden City
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Treat of Versailles – Japan rights in China
1. Hatred of West
2. Communist revolution in Russia
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Anti-Christian Movement 1922-27
1. Missionary Force -- 8,300
2. Reduced to 4,000
3. 3,000 of which left in 1927 alone
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Civil War with Communists in 1928
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Great Depression in 1929
“Undaunted, the CIM called for 200 new workers in 1929 to serve in dangerous areas.
‘It will involve the most tremendous conflict [with Satan] which we have ever undertaken,’ said the CIM director.
Within the next few months eight more missionaries were killed, thirty captured and held for ransom, and twenty of thirty-two CIM stations looted.
The price of serving in China remained high.
In 1930 three missionaries of the Finish Free Mission Society were killed.
Altogether, during 1930, the Communist killed an estimation one hundred fifty thousand Chinese in one province and burned one hundred thousand homes.
One and a half million Chinese fled that province in fear.”
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Missionary beheaded by Communist asked if afraid to die.
Reply: “Afraid?
Of what?
To die and go to be with God?” Another missionary hearing wrote:
Afraid?
Of What?
To feel the spirit’s glad release?
To pass from pain to perfect peace,
The strife and strain of life to cease?
Afraid – of that?
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