Back To Jerusalem movement

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The Back To Jerusalem movement (Chinese:传回耶路撒冷运动) is an Christian evangelistic campaign begun in China by Chinese believers to send missionaries to all of the Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim peoples who live "between" China and Jerusalem. This movement was founded during the 1920s, however government restrictions and persecution forced the movement to go underground for decades.

Since 2003, the most vocal international proponent of "Back to Jerusalem" has been the exiled Chinese house church leader Liu Zhenying a.k.a. "(Brother Yun)". But many Christian leaders in China, such as Samuel Lamb have distanced themselves from Yun and his foreign-funded movement, which they believe has been largely discredited. Yun intends for "Back to Jerusalem" to evangelize fifty-one countries by sending a minimum of 100,000 missionaries along the Silk Road, an ancient trade route that winds from China to the Mediterranean Sea^[1].

References

^ The Back to Jerusalem movement
Hattaway, Paul. Back to Jerusalem: Three Chinese House Church Leaders Share Their Vision to Complete the Great Commission. Gabriel Publishing, 2003.
Hattaway, Paul and Zhenying, Liu. The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun. Kregel Publications, 2004.
Tim Stafford. A Captivating Vision. Christianity Today, April 2004. Transcript.