未竟之业:20世纪40年代汕头教会的自立问题

Unfinished Mission:The Independence Problem of Swatow Presbytery in the Late 1940s

中华基督教会汕头区会曾被视为教会自立的典范,到20世纪40年代后期该区会却面临空前的财政经济危机。这种危机不仅引发各堂会内部严重的人事纠纷,而且使得教会自立之基础被动摇。早期教会自立运动最终成为一种未竟之事业。

In the late 1940s,the social economy of China was collapsing.Swatow Presbytery of lingtung Synod in the CCC began to face unprecedented financial crisis,which made the power relationship between the native church and the EPM change,and also made interpersonal relationship deteriorate in the church and the basis of the church independence shaken.As a result,the church independence movement became an unfinished mission in the end.