The Five Main Doctrines
A Fin essential doctrines of the True Jesus Church come:

1. Holy Spirit "Receiving the Holy Spirit, evidenced by speaking in tongues, is the guarantee of our inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven". (Rom. 8:16, Eph. 1:13-14).

2. Baptism "Water baptism is the sacrament for the remission of sins for regeneration. The baptism must take place in natural living water, such as the river, sea, or spring.

The Baptist, who already has had received baptism of water and the Holy Spirit, conducts the baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the person receiving the baptism must be completely immersed in water with head bowed and face downward". (John 3:5; Matt. 3:16; Acts 2:38, 10:48).

3. Foot washing "The sacrament of feet washing enables one to have a part with the Lord Jesus. It also serves as a constant reminder that one should have love, holiness, humility, forgiveness and service.

Every person who has received water baptism must have his/her feet washed in the name of Jesus Christ. Mutual foot washing may be practiced whenever is appropriate". (John 13:1-7)

4. Holy Communion "The Holy Communion is the sacrament to commemorate the death of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It enables us to partake of the flesh and blood of our Lord and to be in communion with Him so that we can have eternal life and be raised on the Last Day. This sacrament shall be held as often as possible. Only one unleavened bread and grape juice shall be used". (1 Cor. 10:17, 11:26; John 6:53; Mark 14:24-25).

5. Sabbath Day "The Sabbath day, the seventh day of the week (Saturday), is a Holy Day, blessed and sanctified by God. It is to be observed under the Lord's grace for the commemoration of God's creation and salvation and with the hope of eternal rest in the life to come". (Gen. 2:2-3; Heb. 4:9-11)

The Ten Articles of Faith
After in a Eighties, sir thomas more were added to these 5 independent ism to turn into the Decade basic beliefs of the True Jesus Church:

6. "Jesus Christ, the Word who became flesh, died on the cross for the redemption of sinners, ressurrected on the third day and ascended to heaven. He is the only Saviour of mankind, the Creator of the heavens and earth, and the only True God". 7. "The Holy Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, is inspired by God, the only scriptural truth, and the standard for Christian living". 8. "Salvation is given by the grace of God through faith. Believers must rely on the Holy Spirit to pursue holiness, to honour God, and to love humanity". 9. "The True Jesus Church,established by our Lord Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit during the time of the 'latter rain', is the restored True Church of the Apostolic time". 10. "The Lord's Second Coming will take place on the Last Day when He descends from heaven to judge the world: the righteous will receive eternal life, while the wicked will be eternally condemned". This is the latest English version that was adopted during a Ninth TJC Delegates Conference inside Could 2005.

Other beliefs
The church doesn't celebrate Christmas since the 25th of December was originally asscociated using the pagan ritual celebrating the birthday of the Sun which was later adopted into a Christian church in a period of the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD. It argue that a precise day of Christ's birth is unknown & that Jesus never told his disciples to commemorate his birthday.

Good Friday is not found when it as well has ethnic origins.

Historical background & Origins
The successful tries to evangelize China by Nestorian christians from Persia(635-845 AD), the Roman Catholics and Jesuits (1265, 1601-1724) were short lived - they barbarous away from favour by owning a Chinese emperor & saw simply scattered underground efforts.

The 1st Protestant missionaries to labor on Chinese soil began inside 1807 by having a arrival of Robert Morrison (Scottish). When a Opium War within the 1840s missionaries from concluded the world began to arrive in China. Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission in 1865.

A 19th century found a great increase in the total of Christians. Inside 1900 there were all but 113,000 Protestant Christians sustaining 1,600 Chinese Christian workers & 2,000 missionaries.

The Pentecostal Movement in China and the origins of TJC
Charted a Pentecostal Movement in the United States in the 1900s, an Apostolic Faith Mission church was established in Shanghai (上海使徒信心會) and numbers of Chinese Christians subsequently received a Holy Spirit.

Shortly when a boxer rebellion attacks & persecutions inside 1900, numbers of Chinese christians advocated a 3-Self Movement, which promoted the strategy of 'self-sovereign, self-supportive, & self-propagating' sequentially to reduce foreign influences or even interference on the Chinese churches. Many churches were localised / indigenised. A leash early founders of the True Jesus Church besides supported this idea & through the inspiration & revelations of the Holy Spirit they decided to break away from their mainstream pentecostal churches. It were Paul Wei, Ling-Sheng Zhang, and late Barnabas Zhang.

A early workers firmly believed that it was a Lord's may for a two to install the avowedly church that would right all the preceding errors & mistaking in the doctrines of the more denominations & one of these days email perfection prior to the Lord's 2nd coming. Missionaries were sent & gospel newssheet were published & distributed to various provinces within China. A power of God was mightily manifested, through a presence of a Paraclete & the miraculous healing of unwellness in the period of the early stages of the church development.

A gospel was preached to Taiwan in March, 1926 under the counsel of Elisha Huang, Barnabas Zhang & Thomas Guo - For other principles & information, look at China's TJC History and Taiwan's TJC History.

Although however regarded when a Chinese church, a True Jesus Church is becoming more and more globalised now as a gospel of Jesus is preached within countries 100% across the world.

Regional histories
Singapore's TJC history, [http://radio.joy.org.tw/holyspirit.asp?num=1726 Malaysia's TJC History] Japan's TJC History, Korea's TJC history, India's TJC History, Philippine's TJC History, Myanmar's TJC History, Congo's TJC History,

Around 1956 a Taiwanese General Assembly was established inside Taichung. Inside 1967 a International Assembly was formed within Los Angeles, United States(their administrative branch).

Although virtually all of the believers were located in China, contact using a mainland was misplaced shortly when a 1949 Communist takeover in & subsequent persecution of christians throughout China.

Membership
There are presently (within 2004) 440 churches & 106 prayer houses by owning 86,970 members from either as much as 37 countries all told 5 continents in the 'absolutely free! globe' & estimates of complete One.Four million members around China from either dependable sources.

TJC Asia Northeast Asia - China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan. Southeast Asia - Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thail& and Vietnam.

TJC Americas North United states - Canada, United States Latin Us - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile & a Dominican republic.

TJC Oceania - Australia, Fiji, Future Zeal&, Samoa and Tonga.

TJC Europe - Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom

TJC Africa - Benin, Congo Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sierra Leone. Tanzania, Uganda, Togo.

Administration
the True Jesus Church is considered getting a swell integrated & organized rules. (Note: Taiwanese Presbyterian church point of see lone)

A divine workers come a Elders, Deacons & Sermoniser which are then everthing beneath a fellow believers in the formulas.

Now, representatives from either both of the True Jesus Churches in the globe meet when each couple years to elect the chair of the International Assembly which focuses on the Church's development & first progress internationally.

There is a General Assembly within virtually all of the countries mentioned above. A General assembly is of the Theology institution, Fiscal sector.

Inside occasionally countries in which there come non plenty many believers, prayer houses are established. While the total of believers come sufficient, a church dedication ceremony is mass produced.

Why the name - TRUE Jesus Church?
Explanations include: a early founders decided to right a retiring mistakes & errors witnessed inside the extra denominations by making their have ism more in accordance using the biblical teachings. a early workers believed that a gospel it preached contained the Truth & which led population to salvation. God is echt, Jesus is besides really & confessedly. Since he is verity weak, grapevine & saviour, God's church is besides echt & confessedly. The church is atoned & ransomed per blood of Jesus. Likewise a fact that Jesus is my Saviour & go-between and so it would become deemed appropriate for a Church to bear the title of Jesus.

At a start, the projected title was "Jesus True Church" (耶穌真教會) however when a application for a church’s title wwhen existence registered at a Beijing police office the characters were inadvertently assembled as “True Jesus Churchâ€? "(真耶穌教會)and attached onto the church building. By 1927, the Shanghai TJC General Assembly decided to stick to the name.

Criticism
Some people disagree with the statement: They quoted on a website, "We are a way, & a truth, & a life; there is no a single comes to the Father, however by Us" (John 14:6).

Testimonials
Some TJC believers have personally experienced wonderful spiritual songs, tears and spiritual dances during their prayers. During the early days of the church, there were reliable eye witness accounts of people jumping up and down during prayer sessions but never colliding with the ceiling or any object.