Evangelism To The South
During February 1916, while walking on the road, Diàn-Jǔ again heard a voice saying "You are to head south to preach the gospel, I will give you great powers". On April, he changed his name to Barnabas after revelations by the Holy Spirit.
In 1919 he headed to Southern China, preaching the gospel and establishing numerous True Jesus Church prayer buildings. When preaching, Barnabas was humbly dressed up in normal peasant clothing. Most people believed him, owing to many miraculous signs and wonders attributed to the work of the Holy Spirit such as the casting out of demons and healing fatal illnesses on the sick
By 1926, he preached to Taiwan and established three churches in forty days. In 1927 after an invitation from Southeast Asian believers he journeyed to Singapore and what is now Malaysia where he established four churches for the first time.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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