sirhemlock
Joined : 31 May 2007
Posts : 67
|  Subject: Christianity's next demographic center: China?!  Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:01 pm | |
| China may soon become the center of the next great global movement of Christianity, according to a recent article in Asia Times, which affirms the largest concentration of Evangelicals in the world will be in China by mid century if present trends continue; and they are not sitting idly by. This is quite amazing considering they were virtually unknown there just a generation ago. They are a tough lot who are willing to die or lose their freedom rather than compromise the demands of the Gospel, much like their predecessors in the first centuries of the Christian era who transformed their world so rapidly. And they are quite bold in their ambitions. | Quote: | | China's Protestants evangelized at the risk of liberty and sometimes life, and possess a sort of fervor not seen in Christian ranks for centuries. Their pastors have been beaten and jailed, and they have had to create their own institutions through the "house church" movement. |
There numbers are growing at an unprecedented rate: | Quote: | | Barred from churches, Chinese began worshiping in homes, and five major "house church" movements and countless smaller ones... now minister to as many as 100 million Christians. [2] This quasi-underground movement may now exceed in adherents the 75 million members of the Chinese Communist Party; in a generation it will be the most powerful force in the country. |
Their ambition is, no less, to take the gospel back to Jerusalem: | Quote: | | The most audacious even dream of carrying the gospel beyond the borders of China, along the old Silk Road into the Muslim world, in a campaign known as "Back to Jerusalem". As [Time correspondent David] Aikman explains in Jesus in Beijing, some Chinese evangelicals and Pentecostals believe that the basic movement of the gospel for the last 2,000 years has been westward: from Jerusalem to Antioch, from Antioch to Europe, from Europe to America, and from America to China. Now, they believe, it's their turn to complete the loop by carrying the gospel to Muslim lands, eventually arriving in Jerusalem. Once that happens, they believe, the gospel will have been preached to the entire world. |
The full text of the article may be viewed at http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IH07Ad03.html |
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Candi
Age : 39
Joined : 30 Sep 2007
Posts : 24
Location : Texas
Age : 38
| | Subject: Re: Christianity's next demographic center: China?! Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:20 am | |
| Well, China is about to become more hostile... 
Monday August 27, 2007
China: Projected Number of Men without Wives Massively Increased
By 2020, 37 million Chinese men would be unable to find wives if trends continue
By Elizabeth O'Brien
BEIJING, China, August 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Recent demographic reports are showing that the ratio of males to females in China is spiraling out of control. If the increasing imbalance, caused primarily by sex-selected abortions and infanticide, is not remedied, it will lead to increased crimes against women and the threat of an aggressively militant state.
In January Chinese media reports said that by 2020, 30 million Chinese men would be unable to find wives
(See http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07011510.html).
Since then, however, recent reports indicate that the numbers have dramatically risen. According to these findings, the imbalance will increase to 37 million more marriageable Chinese men than marriageable women by 2020, the Guardian Unlimited reports. |
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The Changeling
Age : 45
Joined : 06 Aug 2007
Posts : 265
Location : Cleveland, Oh
Age : 44
| | Subject: Re: Christianity's next demographic center: China?! Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:40 pm | |
| | The Chinese government are equal opportunity persecuters, people of all faiths have been jailed or murdered by them. |
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DRReeves
Joined : 12 Jul 2007
Posts : 154
| | Subject: Re: Christianity's next demographic center: China?! Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:01 am | |
| It's wonderful to see how God's Church is able to grow in the face of adversity like this.
Funny how the most destructive thing to the Body of Christ isn't straight up persecution, but rather sudduction. |
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