To: Pastors Neil Tomba
and Brandt Wright and All the Christian Brothers and Sisters of Northwest Bible
Church
From: Church of Rock, NY
Re: Chinese Bible Ministry Exhibition
Date: September 15th, 2011
Dear Pastors Tomba and Wright and Brothers and Sisters of Northwest
Bible Church:
We feel very grief and regret
for you at learning that your church will host the Chinese Bible Ministry
Exhibition by China Christian Council (CCC) and the Three-self Patriotic
Movement Committee (TSPM), or the “Protestant Church in China” as they label themselves, which are actually under the leadership by the
atheistic Communist Party but not our Lord and God. Motivated by the love of
our savior Jesus Christ, we would like to urge you please ponder with sincere
prayer the following questions before you decide to host the exhibition.
1.
Will you co-work
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 will
not collaborate with such a church for God’ s ministry, then you should not host
the Bible Ministry Exhibition, 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 co-work
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 will
not collaborate with such a church for God’ s ministry, then you should not
host the Bible Ministry Exhibition 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 co-work
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 will not collaborate with such a church for God’s ministry, then
you should not host the Bible Ministry Exhibition since the above is what Gao, Feng, the current CCC President said.
4.
Will you co-work
with a church which leaders are appointed by an atheistic and completely corrupted
government that has been persecuting
true Christians, distorting Biblical Truth, and deceiving the world?
If you will not collaborate with such a church for God’s ministry, then
you should not host the Bible Ministry Exhibition 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
delete, 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! Dear brothers and
sisters. Now the disguised ravening wolves are coming to you. Do not be their
prey. “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a
roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the
faith……”[9]
“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.”[10] Please, for the sake that
Jesus Christ will not be disgraced, for the sake of yourselves,
and for the sake of those may be deceived by the exhibition, do not partake in
the wicked work of the deceivers. You know that helping such kind of wicked
work is a great sin. Stay away!
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: 646-361-5039
73-43 198th St.,
Fresh Meadows, NY 11366
Email:
churchofrock2009@gmail.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] Peter I 5:8.
[10] John II 7-11.