Wang Mingdao and the Empty Field
In 1955, Chinese pastor Wang Mingdao stood in a Beijing courtroom and watched everything stripped away. His church on Shi Cha Hai hutong — shuttered....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Habakkuk 3:17-19.
In 1955, Chinese pastor Wang Mingdao stood in a Beijing courtroom and watched everything stripped away. His church on Shi Cha Hai hutong — shuttered. His printing press — confiscated. His congregation of several hundred — scattered. The government demanded he join the Three-Self Patriotic Movement and submit his preaching to state approval. He refused. What followed was twenty-three years in prison.…
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