Results for: eastern lightning
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Facets of the Chinese Church
[…] has become the greatest threat during the past decade. There are at least 18 indigenous cults in China with the most vicious, vile, and aggressive being the Eastern Lightning group. While house church leaders are learning to identify Eastern Lightning subversives and their tactics, they are not well equipped to discern between theological nonnegotiables and […]
Interview with a Reformed Church Pastor (1)
[…] been forced by the problems brought on by their own growth process and have no choice but to reassess and transform. For example, it is easy for Eastern Lightning to ransack a traditional church, or even to destroy an entire church. Because the traditional church is only concerned about suffering and does not value theology, […]
May 9, 2013
[…] an internet post by a pastor from Xinjiang Autonomous Region on how to discern true and false gods. The context of the article is resurgence of the Eastern Lightning cult last winter. The pastor reminds believers to focus on the attributes of God when discerning false teachings from true teachings. He then spells out five […]
A Xinjiang Pastor on How to Discern True and False Gods
[…] an internet post by a pastor from Xinjiang Autonomous Region on how to discern true and false gods. The context of the article is resurgence of the Eastern Lightning cult last winter. The pastor reminds believers to focus on the attributes of God when discerning false teachings from true teachings. He then spells out five […]
ZGBriefs | May 7, 2015
[…] of people sentenced for religious activities. On closer examination, it appears that the vast majority of these were members of the Almighty God cult, formerly known as Eastern Lightning. Here the China Aid report is problematic in that it claims to cover “predominately Christian persecution” and includes the Almighty God sect as a “Christian sect.” […]
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Denominationalism or Nondenominationalism?
Is There a Third Way?
[…] From the 1980s to around 2000, because of their secrecy, closed stance, and political persecution, some evangelistic teams even strayed away to form emerging cults such as Eastern Lightning. Other groups migrated to the cities as the speed of urbanization increased. They formed organizations that preserved the key teachings and denominational features in their urban […]
The Vital Role of Chinese Women in Evangelism
[…] spirituality (as exhibited by Pentecostal-like forms of Christianity). Some are afraid that charismatic women with false teachings could lead others astray, as seen in the doomsday group Eastern Lightning—established by a woman who taught that Christ has already returned but now in female form. Hence, Calvinism and complementarianism offer safeguards against uncontrollable and extreme forms […]
How Can God Reach These People?
A Look at the Chinese Diaspora in South Africa
[…] back home, and the inability to go visit, have brought great challenges and some question their faith. Rise of Chinese Extreme Churches Extreme churches such as 东方闪电( Eastern Lightning) have established churches in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Finances Finances are always a challenge. Except in the more established churches, most leaders have to be bi-vocational, […]
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China’s WTO Accession—One Year Later
[…] and development of various new religious groups in China, some introduced by foreigners, such as the Ba’hai, while most others are indigenous groups such as Falungong and Eastern Lightning. These groups do not fall into the category of the narrowly defined “normal religions” of the government. Therefore, they are illegal and are targeted for suppression […]