CHINA: "Preach the Pure Truth"

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🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

"Enfu" is the Chinese word for "blessing." When we went to China to secretly interview a Chinese house church pastor, he suggested Enfu as his pseudonym. Every time Pastor Enfu and his congregation meet together, it is illegal. Listen this week as he shares the challenges of being a pastor in a nation cracking down on the church. Some of the challenges will seem obvious. Others will be ones that Christians in free nations may have never thought of, like handling church finances when the church doesn't legally exist. How does his church train new leaders? How do they prepare Christians to stand strong in the face of persecution? We'll hear answers to those questions, and Enfu will share with us specific ways to pray for Chinese Christians—and encourage us with the fact that they are praying for the church in America as well. You'll be encouraged as you come with us to China this week to meet "Pastor Blessing."

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0:00.0	You've probably heard that in China there are official registered churches allowed by the Communist Party.
0:06.4	So why don't all the churches join in that state-approved system?
0:11.2	This pastor in China explains why he doesn't think his church
0:15.4	can register with the government. Christ is the hate of our church. We
0:20.0	submit to Christ in His Word.
0:22.8	If He tells us that we need to elect Godly men,
0:25.9	not once sent by the government,
0:28.1	that is the reason why we remain unregistered.
0:31.3	We believe that we must preach consecutive first by verse in a Bible. When we come to
0:36.4	difficult verse, we have to preach it. We cannot say because that would offend the
0:40.3	government, we have to preach it. We will believe that abortion is a
0:44.0	sin. We believe that if God wants you to have many children,
0:46.9	preaching, but the government policy now has changed to two children. Now we can't
0:51.8	say you can have four or five if we follow the
0:54.4	government's order. That's why we remain unregistered. Jesus never
1:00.0	promised his followers an easy path.
1:02.6	In fact, he told his disciples that the world would hate them.
1:06.1	He sent them out as sheep among wolves.
1:09.1	Jesus's words came true in the life of the Apostles,
1:12.0	and they're still coming true today in the lives of
1:14.4	his followers around the world. Join host Todd Nettleton as we hear their
1:18.2	inspiring stories and learn how we can help right now on the Voice of the martyrs radio network for the second
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