Summary
These six main churches are the most well known and representative of the many independent churches in China and which can still be found till this day. The current ‘House Churches’ in China are also independent churches because after 1949, with the arrival of Communist control and departure of all foreign missionaries, all Chinese Christian denominations had become independent and had to stand on their toes. Therefore the original independent churches flourished during and after the severe persecutions and their standards and experiences will provide good role models for other Chinese churches to learn. The Chinese independent churches will most certainly play an important role for Christianity in China in the near future.
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