Underground Church, The by Eugene Bach & Brother Zhu

Author:Eugene Bach & Brother Zhu [Bach, Eugene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Whitaker House
Published: 2014-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Born Again Movement (Peter Xu)

The Born Again Movement is the name we have chosen to use in discussing the next underground House Church, although the network has also used several other names in the past. It has been known as the Peter Xu Network, the Weepers, the Criers, the Full Scope Church, Word of Life, and New Birth Church.

The Born Again Movement was founded by Xu Yongze, known in the West as Peter Xu. I have spent a considerable amount of time with Peter Xu and his sister Deborah. Whenever Brother Yun is in California for speaking engagements, Peter Xu and his colleagues always end up staying in his hotel room, often arriving at the hotel at all hours of the night with guests who want to pray with Yun.

Peter Xu has been called the Billy Graham of China, and, in many ways, his testimony is just as compelling as that of Brother Yun. Paul Hattaway, coauthor of The Heavenly Man, sat down with Peter Xu and attempted to write a biography about his life. The book has never been published; but if it ever is, it is bound to be one of the most riveting stories ever told, because Xu’s life has been packed with adventure and drama.

Peter Xu is a fourth-generation Christian. He was a “rebel” from the beginning. When fanatical students were swarming campuses with Communist propaganda and refused to tolerate any dissent, Xu infiltrated the same campuses with the gospel of Jesus Christ. During that time, the violence of the student movement in China was intense. A good illustration of this reality may be seen in the early life of Yao Ming’s mother. Yao Ming is a retired Chinese basketball star who played in the NBA. His mother was part of the revolutionary guards—a kind of “shock troop” movement that would carry out the most extreme acts of persecution and cruelty on a horrific scale. She was one of the most vocal leaders of that movement and the one whom many feared the most. Yao Ming’s mother led the charge against her former basketball coaches. In one of her milder actions to discipline a supposed female dissident, she cut off the woman’s hair. She led angry mobs onto campuses like those where Peter Xu was ministering.

Preaching on a vocational campus in China was a huge risk—not just for Peter Xu but for anyone who participated with him. Xu organized reading clubs and used them as a way to introduce students to the Bible. When the Communist regime decided to conduct a sweeping raid on Christians, Xu was one of the top people on its radar. In 1963, he was arrested and questioned for forty days straight. He was later imprisoned four more times.

A FOCUS ON OUTREACH

Like Zhang Rongliang, Peter Xu had been a disciple of Li Tianen. Xu, however, immediately saw a need to train and send out disciples to reach the lost in China. He is unique in this way. While the other networks started

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