To:  Bishops of United Methodist Churches

From: Church of Rock, NY

Re:  Chinese Bible Ministry Exhibition in USA

Date:  September 16th, 2011

 

Dear Bishops of UMC Churches:

We are writing to cause your attention that two of your churches in USA (Mount Vernon Place UMC and Chicago Temple UMC) are in danger to fall into a great sin to host the Chinese Bible Ministry Exhibition sponsored by the China Christian Council (CCC) and the Three-self Patriotic Movement Committee (TSPM), or the “Protestant Church in China” as they label themselves. We hope you can help them get out of the danger by all possible means.

You may ask, “Why is hosting the exhibition a great sin?” We believe that you will find the answer after pondering the following questions with sincere prayer in front of our Lord.

1.     Will you think it is a sin to collaborate with a church which leader said:

“The word becoming flesh, birth by a virgin, resurrection, trinity, judgment at the end, Jesus’ second coming, etc. all are strange and incredible religious ideas which are not understandable…… I have tried by all means but failed to convince myself to accept these things. What attracted me at the beginning and made me to believe in Christianity is The Beatitudes, the plain teaching by Jesus without any mysterious covering. I do not feel I need the other things (from the Bible). I do not think that my denial of the other things would affect my religious faith.”[1]?

If you think it is a sin, then hosting the Chinese Bible Ministry Exhibition is a sin since the above is the quotation from Wu, Yaozong, the first Chairman of TSPM in 1950’s. This is exactly Wu’s “Christian Faith” and the “Christian” doctrine of CCC and TSPM. We believe that you understand now what kind faith it is, a “Christian faith” invented by atheism.

2.     Will you think it is a sin to collaborate with a church which leader said in his response to Jiang, Zeming, the former China President’s calling “to actively lead the religion to fit into the society of socialism”,

 “This should be taken as a calling for us religious leaders, a calling for us to reform our every religion to fit into the society of socialism. This includes the elimination of things not fitting with the society of socialism…… and the promotion of the reformation of the religion beliefs so that our change will not end at just political speech or expression of attitude but be reflected at the dilution of any religious things not fitting into the socialism society and the strengthening of those fitting the socialism society. We should probe each religion. Some of the stuff not fitting with the socialism society should be eliminated immediately, and the rest eliminated gradually.”[2]?

If you think it is a sin, then hosting the Chinese Bible Ministry Exhibition is a sin since the above is the quotation from Ding, Guangxun, an underground Communist Party member and the former TSPM Chairman and CCC President (several terms in 1950’s, 1980’s and 1990’s). The current TPSM Chairman, Fu, Xianwei, has also published the similar statement,[3] because he had to; otherwise he would not have been appointed as the TPSM chairman by the Communist Party who is his real lord.

3.     Will you think it is a sin to collaborate with a church which leader said,

the belief in the second coming of Jesus, God’s grand judgment, and the end of world, etc., are just imaginary – these are very “negative and backward”?

If you think it is a sin, then hosting the Chinese Bible Ministry Exhibition is a sin since the above is what Gao, Feng, the current CCC President said. 

4.     Will you think it is a sin to collaborate with a church which head is not Jesus Christ but an atheistic party and its government?

If you think it is a sin, then hosting the Chinese Bible Ministry Exhibition is a sin since the TSPM mission statement starts with “under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and Government……”. How can a God-believing church be led by the atheistic Communist Party? What kind of church is it?

5.     Will you think it is a sin to collaborate with a church which leaders are appointed by an atheistic and completely corrupted communism government, and which duties are to help the government persecute true Christians, distort Biblical Truth, and deceive the world?

If you think it is a sin, then hosting the Chinese Bible Ministry Exhibition is a sin since all the CCC and TSPM leaders are appointed by the atheistic communism government. The first criteria for such appointment, as emphasized by Hu, Jintao, the current China President, is “to be politically reliable”.[4] They are not only appointed by the government, but also actually the government employees who receive salaries from the government, and preach only what the government allows and pre-approves. Their only job is to carry out the will of the Communist Party, which is to crush the true churches and true Christians, to control and mislead the believers by muddling God’s word, and to deceive the world. And they have been responsibly and faithfully fulfilling their job duties all the time. The Bible Ministry Exhibition is a typical scheme that the “angel of light”[5] has been using to deceive the world. They sneak into the faithful house churches under the name of “brothers in Lord”, then collect information, and then give the information to the police to arrest the church leaders and co-workers and shut down the house churches under various framed charges such as “cult” or “illegal gathering”. They filter, twist or dilute some of the main Biblical teachings such as justification through faith, the second coming of Jesus, the end of the world, God’s final judgment through “theology reformation”. They establish “political studies”[6] in their church system to brain-wash the congregation. Due to his great effort and outstanding achievement in “theology reformation” and establishing “political studies”, [7]Ji, Jianhong became the fourth chairman of TSPM in 2002.

Jesus told us, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”[8]  Watch out! Shepherds. Now the disguised ravening wolves are coming to your flock. Do not let your sheep be their prey. “Many deceivers who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist……If anyone comes to you and do not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.”[9]

“Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.”[10]

Blow your warning trumpet loudly, watchmen!

 

May Jesus Christ who died on the cross to redeem us, the Holy Spirit who leads us into the Truth, and God who loves and gives us faith and strength be with you!

 

Church of Rock, NY

 

Contact information: Jun Shao (Joe); Phone: (001) 646-361-5039; Address: 73-43 198th St., Fresh Meadows, NY 11366, USA; Email: churchofrock2009@gamil.com


[1]  Wu, Yaozong: Darkness and Light. (吴耀宗：光明与黑暗)

[2] Ding, Guangxun: Understand how the religion can fit socialism from the viewpoint of religion’s self-building – The Call for Adjusting Religion Ideology. Chinese Political Council Newspaper, Sept 4, 1998. (從宗教自身建設看宗教如何與社會主義相適應-調整宗教觀念的呼喚【政協報】1998年9月4日第四版)

[3] The United Frontline Department of the Chinese Communist Party’s Committee: The Opening Ceremony of the 1st Retreat Class of the Patriotic Religious People at the People’s Conference Center. (黨委統戰部：第一期愛國宗教界人士研修班開學典禮人大舉行) http://www.wenhuacn.com/news_article.asp?classid=21&newsid=3891, accessed in 2009.

[4] The City TPSM and CCC Held a Conference on Building Theological Ideology for Practicing the Socialism Ideology about Good and Bad. (“我市基督教兩會召開‘踐行社會主義榮辱觀’神學思想建設研討會”)  www.jnmzzjj.gov.cn/ShowNews.asp?NewsID=107, accessed in 2009.

[5] Corinthians II  11:14.

[6] Political studies: to study communism and socialism ideology, speeches of Communist Party leaders, and government policies, etc., which is the main way that the Communist Party has been using to brain-wash the Chinese people.

[7] Xiuxiu Zhang：A Beautiful Silent Song — Elder Jianhong Ji, the Chairman of China Christian “Three-self” Patriotic Movement www.chineseprotestantchurch.org.cn/church/person/jjh.htm  accessed in 2009. (張秀秀：於無聲處奏華章--記中國基督教三自愛國運動會主席季劍虹長老 )

[8] Matthew  7:15.

[9]  John II  7-11.

[10] Ezekiel  3:17-21.