ABSTRACT
A specter is haunting Taiwan—the specter of a radical, millenarian, charismatic Christianity. This is the self-proclaimed one true church, an apostolic sect that calls itself the New Testament Church (Hsin-yueh Chiao-hui). Since the time of its founding in Hong Kong, over a quarter century ago, the church's prophets and apostles have proclaimed loudly to all nations and peoples their message of a purified Christianity, and their God-ordained mission to announce the long-awaited "end of days." Planted on Taiwan in the mid-1960s, the New Testament Church (NTC) has become an all too visible entity in Taiwan's spirit-filled (Pentecostal/charismatic) church community. And, as Protestant church leaders will sadly admit, it has also become a factor in national Taiwanese life—one that casts all Christian organizations in a bad light.
