"While we do not know why God allowed the Communist Revolution to occur, we can describe some of the surprising results for the Western mission to China and Reformed faith in China. One consequence, for example, is that it purged China of theologically liberal Western missionaries. Since then, many orthodox evangelical missionaries have returned to China, but relatively few theological liberals have. However tragic the expulsion of orthodox men and women from China was, the very real danger posed to the church in China by Western liberal theology was checked. Likewise, however much we may mourn the destruction of much good Christian literature and the theological famine the Communist Revolution produced, it also rid the country of most of the harmful Christian literature as well, leaving the Chinese church with one main document: the Bible . From my perspective, this appears to be a significant reason the church in China as a whole, even the state sanctioned Three Self Church, h...