I Believe.......
This is an AI translation, pending the author’s review.
God Is Red — Liao Yiwu
The last testimony of Wang Mingdao
An easy read, and a painful one. A book full of things I don’t understand. I knew the faith of Chinese believers was built on the lives of European missionaries. I knew Chinese believers had passed through a season of great hardship. But reading story after story, reading the records of the people who were there, the pain, the difficulty, the struggle…… it is beyond imagining.
The “good fortune” of Hong Kong believers is that there is no “real suffering”. Their misfortune has the same root.
The believers of China shine, and show up my own darkness. Not the darkness of evil, but the dimness of silence, of not pressing on. My own struggles in life, the challenges to my faith⋯⋯ are troubles of attitude more than trials.
Faith lives among the people, among believers; faith also lives in society, in politics. In the Middle Ages, in the Second World War⋯⋯ The influence of policy turns out to be very near, very close to the skin. Is the faith of Hong Kong churches and believers in today’s society the “false believers” of the early Three-Self church, a “faith” attached to the regime, or “disciples of Jesus” faithful to God as the people of God?