A Light Shining, Part 3: Christmas for China’s Christians
There are two groups of Christian churches in China: the Three Self Church, which is controlled by the state, and the independent house church, which is often called the “underground church.” The historic purpose of the Three Self Movement was a strategy in the 1950s to kick out all foreign missionaries and control all Christians. The strategy was very effective. In the 1970s, there was no visible church in China.