China has launched a new plan for persecution against Christians. One portion of it was implemented only last month. Starting from July 1, 2024, China is searching electronic devices including smartphones and laptops, as part of a new crackdown to ensure “national security,” according to documents sent out by the Ministry of State Security on April 26 of this year.
The new crackdown allows Chinese police officers to gather “electronic data” from “mobile phone text messages, emails, instant messages and group chats,” along with “documents, images, audio and video, apps, log records,” etc.
Under these new laws, even police officers on the street in plain clothes can simply walk up to you, present their ID card, and demand to collect data from your mobile phone or laptop.
In a very dangerous move, China is reverting back to the early days of Communism by re-introducing a nationwide campaign which compels citizens to report on anyone who might be a danger to “national security,” including being on the lookout for foreign spies in their daily lives.
From our experience at BTJ, the Chinese government likely hopes to accomplish five things with the new rules:
- The government hopes to stop Chinese from downloading apps that are legal in other countries, but illegal in China.
- The government hopes to find data that might lead to the elimination of illegal Christian materials, influences of evangelization, or political critics.
- The government hopes create an atmosphere of fear which compel’s citizens to censor themselves more than they already do.
- The government hopes to crack down on the use of communication apps that they do not control like Threema, Telegram, or Signal.
- The government hopes to shrink the number of people who have access to people outside of China.
This increased persecution in China is not isolated. It is a part of a FIVE YEAR PLAN.
In the last 75 years, China has been completely unsuccessful at stopping Christianity, so they plan to change it instead. On BTJ’s website, you can get more details about China’s FIVE YEAR PLAN to change Christianity in China.
Pastor Amos, a partner of BTJ as well as an official pastor for the Chinese government’s registered church, revealed for the first time some of the details found inside China’s FIVE YEAR PLAN to “Chinanize Christianity.” The plan is not a secret, but what is in the plan and how it will be carried out has not been revealed until now.
The details of this plan can be found both on the BTJ website in a special four-part series and in our BTJ Podcast special, but here are a few key points from that series.
In his speech at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping announced his commitment “to the Sinicisation of religion, guiding the adaptation of religion and socialist society to the Chinese context.”
But what did he mean by “Sinicisation” specifically? That has been a mystery, but Pastor Amos shares the details.
Pastor Amos is the pastor of an urban underground house church network with about 150,000 members. It is one of the largest urban networks in all of China. Unlike most pastors in the underground house church however, he is also a pastor in the government sanctioned Three-Self church. “It is my cover,” he admits, as he shares about his dual role.
“China is making changes that are not being reported in the news,” Pastor Amos said, detailing exactly how the Chinese Communist Party plans to infiltrate and change Christianity from within.
Before dismissing the plan as irrelevant to the world Christian body, Christians would do well to know that China plans to use the same multi-pronged approach that has been used to divide the western church with ideological teachings on homosexuality, global warming, abortion, Marxism-inspired social justice, reverse racism, gender affirmation, and even One World religion.
Only a decade ago, these ideologies were largely rejected in most evangelical churches and would be considered absurd to even debate, but in only a short time, not only are they accepted by many mainstream churches, but to refute them can result in expulsion from denominational circles. In some cases, even teaching against these subjects in a Sunday morning service can result in jail!
China has closely monitored the success that these concentrated efforts have had in the western Church and is now deploying a concentrated strategy to do the same.
Step one of the FIVE YEAR PLAN has already begun. A panel of religious leaders which represent the government church in China were commissioned to find a way to make Christianity more palatable for Communism. They have started with a history exhibition. The exhibition consists of 41 panels with more than 600 images which demonize the efforts of missionaries, glorify the history of Communism, and put national patriotism before Christ.
The next phase of the FIVE YEAR PLAN is change the training of all pastors and ministers in China. Yanjing Theological Seminary in Beijing, the Bible school that trains the official religious leaders in China, has been identified as ground zero. Only those who are approved by the government can attend this seminary. All of the future pastors and Christian leaders come from government sanctioned seminaries like Yanjing and are used as the foundation for tomorrow’s leaders to push the new effort.
Yanjing Theological Seminary launched an exhibition hall divided into four parts representing the ‘Awakening’, ‘Practice,’ ‘Development,’ and a process know as the ‘Deepening of Understanding.’
The ceremony was attended by many high-ranking government officials and church leaders who are expected to carry the message to the rest of the official Christians in China — and abroad.
This is important to understand. Not only does China have a plan to change Christianity in China, but to alter it for the rest of the world.
Many large western ministries are being courted and won over with this new Communist view on Christian history.The desire to “Sinonize Christianity,” really means to Communize or Socialize Christianity and the FIVE YEAR PLAN will do things like create a ONE CHURCH of CHINA, re-translate the Bible into a more Communist friendly translation, and much more. More information can be found on our website in a special f
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