Mark Hemingway: China could not silence 200 empty chairs in Capetown

Some 4,000 evangelical Christians from around the world had planned to highlight China’s burgeoning church on Oct. 18, the first full day of the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelism in Capetown, South Africa.

The 200 Chinese evangelicals selected to attend the Congress were the second largest national delegation at the conference, and, in anticipation of the event, they supplied the Congress’s leadership with a special song for the occasion, “The Lord’s Love for China.”