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Shouters who they regard as a heretical or extremist off-shoot. However, there are undoubtedly born-again Christians in the movement. Hattaway estimates 40% of the “Shouters’ may be proper born-again evangelicals (how does he know?) Many house-church leaders of repute in China denounce the Shouters as a heresy. It is disturbing, to say the least, that they are now regarded as completely ‘kosher’ by the promoters of BTJ.

Similarly, the Born Again movement led by Peter Xu Yongze one of the spokesmen in Hattaway’s book for BTJ is regarded as a heresy by many mainstream evangelical house-church leaders (such as Lin Xiangao, Moses Xie etc) It goes without saying the government and TSPM have long declared it a dangerous cult. Many other house-church evangelicals regard the Born Again people as very extreme, at the least. (This is the view I myself take.) They insist on weeping as a mark of true repentance and attendance at secret ‘New Life meetings.’ Mainstream evangelicals are usually criticised for not being genuinely ‘born again’ (which is often patently false.) They are divisive and split churches – one house-church I visited in Hainan had only 12 people left; nearly 200 (including all the young people) had been lured away by the Bom Again preachers. In December 2003 a house-church leader in China wrote a letter making out a good case that many of the leaders of the Born Again movement are very ‘orthodox’ even Reformed in their theology but in practice they wink at serious extremes even heresies being widely practiced at grass-roots level.

The Fangcheng church led by Brother Z. is charismatic. It is seen as divisive and sheep-stealing by mainstream house-church evangelicals in China. Some house-church leaders have serious questions about Zhang’s relationship with his female co-worker and his lack of financial accountability.

The China Gospel Fellowship which has been under severe persecution in recent years is generally regarded as mainstream evangelical and more orthodox than the groups above-mentioned. I am not able to comment on the two large groups based in Anhui.

UNITY

From all this is can be seen that the ‘unity’ proclaimed overseas is only paper-thin and serious questions need to be asked about some of the larger groups. With such serious divergences in doctrine and practice what will be the Gospel proclaimed overseas? Will prospective missionaries be asked to sign a statement of faith? Who will select candidates and ensure proper Biblical and theological training?

Much hinges on the unity of these reportedly huge house-church movements to work together. Yet privately BTJ leaders admit that the the Sinim fellowship which is supposed to coordinate BTJ in China is no longer meeting regularly. There is much disunity among the seven groups supposedly cooperating. The Born Again movement formerly led by Brother Y.has now split five ways with his sister trying to maintain a precarious hold on authority over one of the split groups. Brother Y. has been in America for several years. Brother X. has not been in China, I believe, for 5 years. Brother Z. I was told in January has been disowned by many of his co-workers of the Fangcheng church for his immorality although a minority still keep in touch. So this church is now split, too. So how can these handful of leaders now travelling widely

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他們認為「呼喊者」是異端或極端主義的分支。然而，毫無疑問，這場運動中也有一些重生的基督徒。 海特威 Hattaway 估計，40% 的「呼喊派」成員可能是真正的重生福音派信徒（他怎麼能知道呢？）。許多中國家庭教會的知名領袖都譴責「呼喊派」是異端。令人不安的是，如今「回歸耶路撒冷」的宣傳者們卻將他們視為完全「正統」的團體。

同樣，海特威 Hattaway 書中「歸回耶路撒冷」的發言人之一，領導「重生派」的徐永澤所也被許多主流福音派家庭教會領袖（例如林獻羔、謝模善等）視為異端。毋庸置疑，政府和「三自愛國運動」早已將其定性為危險的邪教。許多其他家庭教會的福音派信徒至少認為「重生派」成員非常極端。 （我自己也是這麼認為的。）他們堅持以哭泣作為真正悔改和參加秘密「新生命聚會」的標誌。主流福音派人士通常被批評為並非真正「重生」（這往往明顯是錯誤的）。他們是分裂眾教會的－我造訪過的海南一家家庭教會只剩下12人；近200人（包括所有年輕人）被「重生派」宣教士引誘走。 2003年12月，一位中國家庭教會領袖寫了一封信，有力地論證了“重生派”運動的許多領袖在神學上非常“正統”，甚至可以說是改革宗，但在實踐中，他們對在基層普遍存在的極端主義，甚至是異端邪說卻視而不見。

Z弟兄所帶領的方城教會是靈恩的。中國主流家庭教會福音派人士認為，教會製造分裂，是「偷羊」行為。一些家庭教會領袖對張弟兄與其女同事的關係以及他缺乏財務問責制提出了嚴肅的質疑。

中國福音團契是近年來一直遭受嚴重迫害的教會，普遍被認為是主流福音派，比上述團體更正統。我無法評論安徽省的兩個大型團隊。

合一

由此可見，海外宣稱的「合一」只是紙上談兵，對一些較大的團隊需要提出嚴肅的問題。在教義和實踐上存在如此嚴重的分歧的情況下，在海外宣揚的福音是怎麽樣的？未來的宣教士會被要求簽署信仰宣言嗎？誰來挑選候選人並確保適當的聖經和神學訓練？

這些據稱規模龐大的家庭教會運動能否合一，很大程度上取決於它們的合作。然而，回歸耶路撒冷的領袖私下承認，在中國原本應該協調回歸耶路撒冷的「希尼團契」已不再定期聚會。七個據稱合作的團體之間存在著很大的分歧。先前由Y弟兄領導的重生派現在已經分裂成五個支派，他的妹妹試圖對其中一個團體維持岌岌可危的權威。分裂的團體。 Y弟兄已經在美國好幾年了。 X弟兄，我記得，已經五年不在中國了。我一月聽說，Z弟兄因為不道德的行為，被方城教會的許多同工斷絕了關係，儘管仍有少數人與他保持聯繫。所以這個教會現在也分裂了。那麼，這些四處奔走的少數領袖怎麼可能…