While the Lord has indeed brought millions of people to Christ in China over recent years, the character and some of the claims of ‘Brother Yun’ — whose story is told in the book The Heavenly Man — are being called into question by indigenous Chinese house church leaders.
Samuel Lamb (Lin Xiangao) has strongly attacked the ‘heavenly man’ (Brother Yun) in a pamphlet issued in August. The two most respected house church leaders in Beijing, Moses Xie and Allen Yuan, have also come out strongly against him and Peter Xu. Allen Yuan, who is himself from a Pentecostal background, has said that they are ‘black sheep disturbing the church’.
In early April the key leaders of the large rural Sinim Fellowship house churches met in Shanghai and all distanced themselves from Brother Yun and Peter Xu, whom they regard as heterodox, as they come from the ‘Born Again’ movement which is widely regarded by most house church leaders in China as extreme, if not downright heretical. Moses Xie has written an article in which he describes how the Born Again evangelists split existing churches with their extreme teaching.
