True Jesus Church

The True Jesus Church is an independent Pentecostal Christian church founded in China in 1917. It is distinguished by teachings including baptism by immersion, seventh-day Sabbath observance, and speaking in tongues as evidence of receiving the Holy Spirit.

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Pentecostalism: A Christian movement emphasizing the baptism of the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues. The church shares Pentecostal emphasis on spiritual gifts while developing its own doctrines and organization.
China Christian Independent Church: A Chinese Christian movement that sought independence from foreign missionary control. The church arose in the same setting of Chinese efforts to establish locally led Christianity.
Believer's baptism: Baptism administered to people who personally profess faith, rather than to infants. The church baptizes those who believe and confess faith.
Assemblies of God: A global Pentecostal denomination founded in the United States in 1914. It shares Pentecostal roots but differs from the church in Sabbath practice and several doctrines.
Chinese Christianity: Christian communities and traditions in China, shaped by local history and global missionary encounters. The church became one distinctive expression within the wider history of Christianity in China.
Baptism in Christianity: A Christian rite involving water, associated with initiation into the faith and varying interpretations of cleansing and new life. The church treats water baptism as essential to salvation and specifies its form and manner.
Pentecostal revival: A series of Christian renewal movements emphasizing spiritual gifts, healing, and baptism in the Holy Spirit. Pentecostal revival currents helped shape the religious environment in which the church began.
Immersion baptism: Baptism performed by submerging the candidate in water. The church requires baptism by immersion, with the candidate's head bowed.
Seventh-day Adventist Church: A Protestant denomination known for Saturday Sabbath observance and teachings associated with the Second Coming. Both observe Saturday as Sabbath, but their origins and core teachings differ.
Chinese Civil War: The conflict between Chinese Nationalist and Communist forces, ending with Communist victory on the mainland in 1949. Political upheaval and the establishment of the People's Republic reshaped the church's organization and community life.