{"id":6214,"date":"2016-02-17T16:09:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2016-02-17T16:09:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T21:09:06","slug":"china-revival-falls-on-state-controlled-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6214","title":{"rendered":"CHINA: Revival Falls on State-Controlled Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: CBN News, via Joel News International, February 15, 2016<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Thursday evening in Fujian Province, southeast China. Scores of men and women are dancing, waving flags, blowing shofars, singing and worshiping God. You might think these images come from a charismatic service in America or Africa. But they\u2019re not. This is communist China. And what is remarkable about this scene is that it\u2019s happening in an officially government-controlled congregation known as Three-Self Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDramatic changes are happening,\u201d evangelist Duan Huila told CBN News. \u201cGod is moving in a powerful way inside these Three-Self Churches.\u201d He and his wife have witnessed this move first-hand. Both are evangelists and have for several years crisscrossed the Chinese countryside documenting the Holy Spirit\u2019s move among Three-Self Churches. \u201cThe most amazing thing is that the Lord is raising up God-loving people in these churches\u2014so many brothers and sisters who love God deeply and want to serve him,\u201d Duan said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/world\/2016\/February\/An-Unexpected-Move-of-God-in-Communist-Controlled-China\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/world\/2016\/February\/An-Unexpected-Move-of-God-in-Communist-Controlled-China\">Read full story and watch related video from CBN<\/a>. See also a 2014 Joel News story on <a href=\"http:\/\/us1.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=5138667adad5222600bae0e66&amp;id=f8fec60d63&amp;e=947657d957\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/us1.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=5138667adad5222600bae0e66&amp;id=f8fec60d63&amp;e=947657d957\">the paradox of the rapid spread of Christianity in China<\/a> and consider <a href=\"http:\/\/joelnews.org\/#sign-updonate\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/joelnews.org\/#sign-updonate\">subscribing to Joel News<\/a> for more stories about the advance of God\u2019s kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Also read <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2016\/02\/11\/leave-china-study-in-america-find-jesus-chinese-christian-converts-at-american-universities\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2016\/02\/11\/leave-china-study-in-america-find-jesus-chinese-christian-converts-at-american-universities\/\">Leave China, Study in America, Find Jesus<\/a> (Foreign Policy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: CBN News, via Joel News International, February 15, 2016 It\u2019s Thursday evening in Fujian Province, southeast China. Scores of men and women are dancing, waving flags, blowing shofars, singing and worshiping God. You might think these images come from a charismatic service in America or Africa. But they\u2019re not. This is communist China. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6214\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHINA: Revival Falls on State-Controlled Churches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6215,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions\/6215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}