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Wang Mingdao – A 20th Century Chinese Version of an Apostle
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Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission: With a Record of the Perils & Sufferings of Some Who Escaped 
Overall Rating:Retail Price: $34.75 Amazon Price: $19.95 Wang Mingdao (1900-1991) became a Christian at the age of 14. At the age of 20 he was fired from his teaching job in a Chinese Presbyterian school because he did not consider the Presbyterian doctrine of baptism, wherein that dismal candidates were “sprinkled” by the clergyman while standing upright in the church, to be biblical. Wang felt that baptism required full immersion. He began his ministry in a tiny courtyard of his mother and sister’s home in Peking. By the end of the 1920s he was in great demand as a Christian speaker.
He insisted that the Bible was the only authority for all Christian doctrine and for how a person should let out the Christian life. He was constantly challenging congregation to live out lives of personal virtue. He experienced much opposition because of his preaching against sin and corruption within the church. Wang felt it was “part of his commission to call upon people in the churches to repent and for sake there sans.” He wrote an autobiography entitled A Stone Made Smooth. He rented the hall to Christian services in Peking, but the crowds wanting to attend were so large she was forced to construct a large building to contain the congregations. He dedicated this church, the Christian Tabernacle on August 1, 1937. One week later the Japanese army took over the city.
Wang was as uncompromising with the Japanese as he had been with the churches that he felt were failing in their moral standards. Wang refused to join a Japanese controlled entity called the North China Christian Federation. One of the hallmarks of this man was the fact that he never received any financial support from the British or the Americans and throughout his career as a pastor and evangelist he insisted that the Chinese churches needed to be completely independent of foreign mission organizations or foreign church denominations. He felt that Chinese Christian communities should be able to support themselves financially, and to do their own evangelizing and discipling of new believers.
Jesus in Beijing - Revised and updated 
Overall Rating:Retail Price: Varies based on product options Amazon Price: View Sale Price Long before communism took over in China Wang had instituted his own Christian version of the so-called 3 Self principles, namely self-support, self propagation, self-governing. Those would later become the slogan of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement which is the official (recognized by the government) Protestant organization claiming to represent all of China’s Protestant Christians.(These are facts from the book, but are not direct quotes, and are found on pages 49-51).
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