“On balance,” he says, “most Western missionaries to China were every bit as dedicated to their mission as the committed Chinese Marxist is to his ideology today” ( Wan-sui, Insights on China Today, p. Actually, according to World Vision staffer Robert Larson, a long-time Hong Kong China-watcher, serious research will some day do proper justice to the Western missionary experience in China. Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai, and other revolutionaries deplored Christian missionaries as foreign-controlled agents reflective of Western culture and interests, as imperialist spies and political propagandists. His many small works, particularly those in applied soteriology, or salvation in practice, quickly gained for him an international following. The worsening political climate-Nee spent the last decade and a half before his death in June, 1972, in Communist work camps-spurred interest in his writings. Identified with the plight of underground Christianity in China, he became, especially among many Jesus people, a model for victorious Christian living under adverse social pressures.Īny leader who directly or indirectly founds 700 churches inevitably invites attention, and many persons were understandably curious about this remote Chinese personality and his “little flock” principles. Watchman Nee is well known among evangelicals in many parts of the world.
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