'''Potrójnie-Samo Ruch Patriotyczny''' (oficjalnie: Komitet Chińskiego Chrześcijańskiego Potrójnie-Samo Ruchu Patriotycznego; potocznie: Potrójnie-Samo Kościół) i Chińska Rada Chrześcijańska są dwoma prorządowymi ("patriotycznymi") kościelnymi organizacjami w Chińskiej Republice Ludowej . Te dwa kościoły stanowią jedyne legalne ("zarejestrowane") protestanckie kościoły w Chinach kontynentalnych . Mówi się o nich zazwyczaj 'dwa związki'. Istnieje duża liczba podziemnych kościołów domowych w Chinach funkcjonująca poza ramami tych dwóch organizacji.

===Historia ===
W 1951, kantończyk Y. T. Wu (1893-1979) zapoczątkował Potrójnie-Samo Ruch Patriotyczny , który propagował strategię z 'samo-rządzenia, samo-zaopatrzenia, i samo-rozprzestrzeniania' w celu usunięcia cudzoziemskich wpływów z chińskich kościołów. To miało zapewnić komunistyczny rząd, że kościoły będą patriotycznie nastawione do nowopowstałej Chińskiej Republiki Ludowej. Dziwnie brzmiąca nazwa 'Potrójnie-Samo' jest typowym chińskim sposobem skracania 'samo-rządy, samo-poparcie, samo-rozmnażanie'. Formalnie ruch zaczął się w 1954 r.

Trwająca od 1966 do 1976 rewolucja kulturalna zakazała ekspresji życia religijnego chrześcijanom w Chinach. W 1979 na nowo został powołany oficjalny kościół, a w 1980 powstała Rada Chrześcijańska. Dzięki istnieniu Rady, zarejestrowany protestancki kościół uczestniczy w Światowej Radzie Kościołów .

The '''Three-Self Patriotic Movement''' (officially , National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China; colloquially , the Three-Self Church) or '''TSPM''' is the government-sanctioned ("patriotic") Christian organization in the People's Republic of China.  Known in combination with the China Christian Council as the lianghui (two organizations), they form the only state-sanctioned ("registered") Protestant church in mainland China. ''(See also: Protestantism in China and Christianity in China.)
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==History==
The three principles of self-governance, self-support (i.e., financial independence from foreigners) and self-propagation (i.e., indigenous missionary work) were first articulated by Henry Venn, General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1841–73, and Rufus Anderson, foreign secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions<ref>Christianity Today Library: [http://ctlibrary.com/41452 Marking Time in the Middle Kingdom], Madison Trammel (URL last accessed on May 1, 2007)</ref><ref>Warren M (Ed.), To Apply the Gospel: Selections from the Writings of Henry Venn,  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971</ref>. The principles were drafted formally during an 1892 conference in Shanghai of Christian missions reflecting an almost unilateral agreement that the future of the Chinese church depended on the indigenization of the leadership, and the finding of sufficiently Chinese modes of worship<ref>Grant, Paul: [http://www.strategicnetwork.org/index.php?loc=kb&view=v&id=8345&printerfriendly=Y&lang= The Three Self Church], NSM, January 1, 2007 (URL last accessed on May 1, 2007)</ref>. Dixon Edward Hoste, head of the China Inland Mission was known for putting the same principles into practice in the effort of assisting the Chinese to establish their own indigenous churches during the early 20th Century.

In 1951, a Cantonese Christian named communist government that the churches would be patriotic to the newly-established People's Republic of China. The 'Three-Self' is a characteristically Chinese way of abbreviating 'self-governance, self-support, self-propagation' (). The movement began formally in 1954 and allowed the government to infiltrate, subvert, and control much of organized Christianity<ref> p.164</ref>.

From 1966 to 1976 during the CCC was formed.

in 1993 there were 7 million members of the TSPM with 11 million affiliated, as opposed to an estimated 18 million and 47 million "unregistered" Protestant Christians respectively.

==Doctrine==
The TSPM is not a denomination, and denominational distinctions do not exist within the organization. Pastors are trained at one of only thirteen officially sanctioned seminaries<ref> p.164</ref> which are Marxist-oriented and teach liberal theology<ref> p.165</ref>.

The attempt to bring house-church Christians into the fold of "registered" meeting places has met with mixed results<ref> p.164</ref>. One area of disagreement has been the restriction that the government places on preaching and teaching certain doctrines which are deemed to be inappropriate. Some examples of teaching that are not offered at the TSPM meetings include: references to the Second Coming of Christ and the resurrection of the dead.

However, restrictions are not always harshly enforced, and many pastors within the TSPM have the freedom to exposit Christian teachings more fully<ref> p.165</ref>.

==Controversy==
The TSPM and CCC are viewed with suspicion and distrust by some Christians both within and outside China. Some claim the TSPM to be a tool of the House Church movement in China with some claiming that it serves the large majority of Protestant Christians in China <ref>24/7 Prayer: [http://www.24-7prayer.com/ow/country2.php?country_id=16#christians Statistics of Christians in China] (URL last accessed on May 1, 2007)</ref>.