International Bulletin of Missionary Research
If the quest of the church is for unity in Christ, the on-the-ground reality has been kaleidoscopic fragmentation. And the kaleidoscope is spinning with increasing speed. In the past dozen years, formal organizational diversity among Christians has grown by 26 percent, swelling from an estimated 34,100 denominations in the year 2000 to a projected 43,000 by mid-2012.
... As the articles in this issue by R. G. Tiedemann, Gloria Tseng, and Peter Ng show, the planting of the Protestant church in China provides an excellent case in point. Turfs—territorial, intellectual, spiritual, and above all denominational—were carved out. When the call of Cheng Jingyi came, giving voice to the desire in China for “a united Christian church that was freed from denominationalism”, many heard and followed his lead.
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