While doing some research for a church history paper, I ran across this quote from Chêng Ching-yi, a Chinese delegate to the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland:
You have sent us missionaries who gave us the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and for this we are profoundly grateful to you. But you have also brought us your divisions. We ask you, therefore, to preach only the Gospel to us and to allow Jesus Christ himself to raise up among our peoples, through the action of his Spirit, the Church that meets his norms and that is also in keeping with the character of our race: a Church that will be the Church of Christ in Japan, the Church of Christ in China, in India, and so on. But delivers from all the 'isms' which you attach to the preaching of the Gospel among us.
Wise words.
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