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It has been stated that most of the potential BTJ missionaries are women. This raises serious problems for evangelism in Muslim countries. There is already an unpleasant trade in prostitution in the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia. Young Filipino maids to rich Muslim families are sometimes forced to give sexual services. At least they have passports and can return safely home eventually. Some leaders of the BTJ movement envisage marrying off young people in China before sending them out as married couples. This is good (although it smacks of authoritarianism if pressure is brought to bear by the house-church leaders on impressionable young people to get married.) It would be most unwise to encourage young Chinese girls to travel illegally to the Middle East to do evangelism. They will be easy prey to the unscrupulous. The Born Again Movement in China has come under strong criticism for sending out young teenage evangelists to distant provinces without their parents’ consent. It is fervently to be hoped no young single Chinese girls will be smuggled into the Middle East.
There are already small China-towns in such places as Cairo and Istanbul. The young BTJ evangelists may eventually find help and support from the existing Chinese communities. They may be a welcome boost to existing Chinese churches in these cities, or even found new ones. But how effective will they be in outreach to hostile or indifferent Muslim neighbors without continuing fellowship, prayer support and specialised training?. Especially if they are living there illegally.
If some give up because of lack of proper training they will not be able to return to China. So many may leave the Middle East to seek their fortune in America or Europe. Could the BTJ movement as it is now taking shape, just hasten illegal emigration of Christian peasants from Central China with some genuine desire for evangelism but also the understandable hope of economic betterment? Should the Western church fund a mass migration of Christians who could be very usefully employed in evangelism to their own people? Is this what God wants?
THE TIME-SCALE
Some BTJ leaders are talking about sending out the 100,000 missionaries over the next 5 years. Apparently they sense that revival appears to by dying down in China and they wish to concentrate on the BTJ vision to revive zeal for evangelism and missions. However, as I have shown, to rush ahead and send out so many rural Christians in such a short time will be counter-productive. Many will be disillusioned and it could delay or even abort the birth of a genuine Holy Spirit-led Chinese missions movement in the 21st century.
History shows that genuine revival which results in mission is God-given – not created artificially by man. The example of the Korean church should give us pause to ponder. It may have taken 30 years for the Korean church after wonderful revival and church growth to become mature as a missions-sending church. Yet the Koreans were well-educated and economically self-supporting. The rural, semi-literate and impoverished house-churches of central China are in a very different situation.
A POSITIVE PROGRAM
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據稱，大多數潛在的「回歸耶路撒冷」（BTJ）宣教士都是女性。這給穆斯林國家的福音傳播帶來了嚴重的問題。海灣國家和沙烏地阿拉伯的賣淫活動已經十分猖獗。富裕穆斯林家庭的年輕菲律賓女傭有時被迫提供性服務。至少她們有護照，最後還可以安全回國。一些「回歸耶路撒冷」運動的領導人設想，先讓中國的年輕女性結婚，然後再將他們作為已婚夫婦送出去。這很好（儘管如果家庭教會的領導人向易受影響的年輕人施加壓力，讓他們結婚，就有點專制主義的味道了）。鼓勵中國年輕女孩非法前往中東傳福音是非常不明智的。她們很容易成為不法之徒的獵物。中國的「重生派」運動因在未經父母同意的情況下派遣青少年宣教士到偏遠省份而受到強烈批評。我們熱切希望不要再有中國單身女孩被偷運到中東。
在開羅和伊斯坦堡等地，已經出現了小型唐人街。年輕的「回歸耶路撒冷」（BTJ）宣教士最終或許能從現有的華人社區獲得幫助和支持。他們或許能為這些城市現有的華人教會帶來正面的推動，甚至還能建立新的教會。但是，如果沒有持續的團契、禱告支持和專業培訓，他們在接觸敵對或冷漠的穆斯林鄰居方面能有多大成效呢？尤其是在他們非法居住的情況下。
如果有些人因為缺乏適當的訓練而放棄，他們將無法返回中國。因此，許多人可能會離開中東，前往美國或歐洲尋求發展。目前正在形成的「回歸耶路撒冷」（BTJ）運動，是否會加速那些來自中國中部、懷有真摯傳福音願望，同時也懷有經濟改善願望的基督徒農民的非法移民？西方教會是否應該資助大規模的基督徒移民，讓他們能有效地向自己的同胞傳福音？這是上帝的旨意嗎？
時間安排
一些 BTJ 領袖正在討論在未來五年內派遣 10 萬名宣教士。顯然，他們感覺到中國的復興似乎正在消退，並希望專注於 BTJ 的願景，以重振福音和宣教的熱情。然而，正如我所指出的，在如此短的時間內倉促差派如此多的農村基督徒只會適得其反。許多人會感到失望，這可能會推遲甚至扼殺 21 世紀真正由聖靈引領的中國宣教運動的誕生。
歷史表明，真正能帶來宣教的復興是神所賜予的，而非人為創造的。韓國教會的例子應該讓我們停下來思考。在經歷了美好的復興和教會發展之後，韓國教會可能花了 30 年的時間發展成為一個成熟的宣教教會。然而，韓國人受過良好的教育，經濟上能夠自給自足。中國中部農村地區，半文盲、貧窮的家庭教會處境截然不同。