1949年10月中华人民共和国的成立,揭开了中国基督教发展史上新的一页。作为全国最重要的基督教协调与联合机构,中华全国基督教协进会清醒地意识到中国教会要求得新时代下的生存空间,必须深刻检讨自己的过往事工,继而进行某种因应时代的变革之举。然而,协进会做出的种种调整,不管是对外要求英、美差会放权也好,对内筹办全国基督教会议与第十四届年会也罢,均是基于纯粹的宗教立场而动,所有这些与中共在中国教会与西方世界的关系这一核心问题上的期许相差甚远,以至于中共不得不“另起炉灶”,选择中国教会内部的新势力来主导这场变革。这便有了吴耀宗、刘良模、邓裕志等人发起的影响中国教会日后走向的中国基督教“三自”革新运动。
The establishment of the People's Republic of China in October 1949 opened a new page in the history of the development of Christianity in China. As the most important Christian coordination and alliance organization in China, the National Christian Council of China is keenly aware that the Chinese church requires a living space in the new era, and must deeply reflect on its past work, and then make some changes in response to the times. However, the various adjustments made by the National Christian Council of China, whether it was external demands for delegation of power from the British and American missions, or internal preparations for the National Christian Conference and the 14th Annual Conference, were all based on purely religious positions. All of these were far from the expectations of the Chinese Communist Party on the core issue of the relationship between the Chinese church and the Western world, to the extent that CCP had to "start anew" and choose new forces within the Chinese church to lead this change. This led to the Chinese Christian Three Self Reform Movement initiated by Y. T. Wu, Liu Liangmo, Cora Deng, and others, which influenced the future direction of the Chinese church.