| Samuel Lamb | |
| Born | October 4, 1924 China |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Chinese house church leader |
| Religious beliefs | Christian |
Samuel Lamb or Lin Xiangao (traditional Chinese: 林獻羔; simplified Chinese: 林獻羔; pinyin: Lín Xiàn-gāo; Wade-Giles: Lin2 Hsian4-Kao1, b. Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use Wade-Giles (ˌweɪdˈʤaɪlz) sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system (phonetic notation and Transcription) for the Mandarin October 4, 1924) is a Christian pastor in Guangzhou, China. Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth A pastor is an official person within a Protestant group of people and related to the positions of Priest or Bishop within the Anglican, Roman Catholic Guangzhou ( Jyutping: Gwong²zau¹; Yale: Gwóngjàu) is the Capital and a Sub-provincial city China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National He is a leader among Chinese house churches, and known for his resistance against participation in the state-controlled "Three-Self Patriotic churches". Chinese house churches are a religious movement of unregistered assemblies of Christians in the People's Republic of China, which operate independently of the government-run The Three-Self Patriotic Movement (officially zh-cn 中国基督教三自爱国运动委员会 National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China
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Biography
Lamb was born in a mountainous area overlooking Macau. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Macau topics. His father, Paul Lamb, was a pastor of a small Baptist congregation. Baptist is a term describing individuals belonging to a Baptist church or a Baptist denomination.
Lamb was imprisoned for more than twenty years (1955—1957, 1958—1978) for his faith in Christ, but this imprisonment did not hinder his faith. In spite of "honey-bucket" duty at labor farms or backbreaking work in coal mines at labor camps, Lamb continued to teach. A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are engaged in Penal labor.
Theology
Over the course of Lamb's life he was imprisoned several times because he did not follow Chinese government rules concerning religion. Lamb, along with Wang Ming-Dao, refused to submit to the state-run church, known as the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM). Wang Mingdao ( (1900-1991 was a Chinese Christian Protestant leader Like other house church leaders, Lamb refused to join the TSPM because of the limitations placed by government on the member congregations. The restrictions include: No preaching from the Book of Revelation, discouragement from preaching on the Second Coming of Christ, and a prohibition on evangelizing to minors (children's Sunday School). The Book of Revelation, also called Revelation to John, Apocalypse of John ( pronounced, from the Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰωάννου In Christianity, the Second Coming is the anticipated return of Jesus Christ from Heaven to earth an event that will fulfill aspects of Messianic Evangelism is the Christian practice of proselytisation. The intention of most evangelism is to effect Eternal salvation to those who do not follow the " Sunday school " is the generic name for many different types of Religious education pursued on Sundays by various denominations In all these cases, Lamb believed that obedience to God supersedes the command in Romans 13 which requires Christians to obey their governments. The Epistle of St Paul the Apostle to the Romans is one of the letters of the New Testament canon of the Christian Bible.
References
Anderson, Ken. Bold as a Lamb: Pastor Samuel Lamb and the underground Church of China. Zondervan Publishing House, 1991.