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Christianity in China is controlled, suppressed, and persecuted under the religious policies of the party-state system. In order to survive and respond to the spiritual needs of believers at the same time, various types of organizations have emerged, including official Three-Self church organizations to underground house churches. After Xi Jinping came to power, the persecution of house churches has increased, and the campus has been subject to multiple controls. The study will utilize the triple‐market model of Yang Fenggang’s theory to focus on the college students of two house churches in Beijing, and understand how the gray market of house churches is getting smaller and smaller in contemporary China, and what impact it will bring to college students. Explore how these college students maintain their faith in a difficult environment. The results of the study show that in a difficult environment, the reasons why the interviewed college students are able to maintain their faith in the difficult situation include their peers’ supportive attitude towards freedom of belief, the questioning of their beliefs by their peers, which gives them opportunities to deepen their beliefs, and their fellow church members. The social and emotional support of his own beliefs, the sense of mission that his own beliefs can change the Chinese environment, and the detached sense of mundane identity brought by the spiritual experience of transcending the physical senses in the belief. Religious policies under the party-state system cannot fully control the practice of the doctrine and the experience of believers. On the contrary, because of the difficult environment it creates, it brings believers the opportunity to deepen their beliefs and feel beyond secular identity. These religious experiences and social factors are an important key to the survival of Christianity under the control of the party-state system, as well as one of the important micro-foundations for the existence of a gray market or even a black market in the triple‐market model.
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