This article explores the relation between Christianity, civic community and civil society in Contemporary Beijing by studying four types of Christian churches. This empirical study proposes that Shouwang Churches, as a representative of Newly Emerging Church, possesses the qualities of a civic community. Other types of churches are not parts of a civic community. This article also finds that these four types of churches play different and complicated roles in the building of civil society in China. Shouwang Church helps to build a communitarian civil society through the construction of a true civic community.