In the meantime, we have to remind ourselves constantly not to be drowned. Unfortunately we have heard from our churches in the northeast provinces complaining that in the past couple of years many conservative south Korean Christian workers, often with a large amount of foreign currency, have been trying to apply their church-development methods to the churches in Manchuria. Those workers believe that in this way they can also enhance the growth of ethnic Chinese congregations. However, they forget that those Korean Christians in China are Chinese Koreans whose identity is not entirely the same as that of those Koreans in Korea. Their differences in identity have been shaped and re shaped by different social, political, historical and cultural contexts.
Some Christian workers are even heretical or to help set up a base for working behind the scenes.
But because they have very little information about the Chinese churches, those Korean Christians cannot understand the mission work of Chinese Christians within their own society. Various kinds of Christian denominations and sectarian groups are looking into China openly or secretly to seek to convert the Chinese to their particular Christian faith. As a result, the Church is threatened by the revival of denomination- alism, which not only adds to the confusion of many uneducated Christians but also causes division among educated Christians. The Chinese Church is willing to be related to any overseas church or church organization which respects our three-self principle and treats us on an equal footing for the purpose of strengthening bonds between Chinese Christians and Christians abroad. The guiding principle for cooperation offered by foreign churches and Christian organizations is that projects should be open and above board and meet the needs of the target people.