Christianity is growing in China....Russia is opposed to the gay/lesbian agenda....
and what are we doing here in the U.S....we're kicking God out of the public forum as fast as we can.
There are people in jail right now, in China, for possessing bibles. The bible is one of the most smuggled items into China. Chinese officials routinely execute Christians for their temerity to hold something higher than the government. These are brave people.
Duplicate post. There was the setup with the usual fake title,...
More Christians in China than the USA?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3146502/posts
[Real title: China on course to become ‘world’s most Christian nation’ within 15 years]
...and the duplicate today. See how that works?
China is not free. Neither is Russia.
And considering their population is three times ours plus and China about the size of the US too.
Our church has had a program to bring over seven Chinese college students per year to evangelize them. We have two boys right now from Yunnan Province. They very eagerly accept the Gospel. We know of many conversions.
We attended the Beijing International Christian Fellowship during both of our trips to China.
It was simply amazing. There were people there from everywhere on the planet, some in their native garb. And it was PACKED.
A nice preview of Heaven.
It is the most popular religion among those seeking religion in their lives in China.
There is something very fearsome lurking here. This is that the Chinese government is very scared of Christianity, or what passes for it, and it has a very good *reason* to be afraid.
About the same time as the US Civil War, there were American missionaries in China. And one of them gave a religious tract to the wrong guy. A ridiculously charismatic madman.
His name was Hong Xiuquan, and he immediately convinced himself that he was “Jesus’ younger brother”. And then he convinced millions of other people the same thing.
And then he decided to overthrow the emperor, in what today is known as the Taiping Rebellion. And anywhere from 20 to 30 million people died, mostly from swords, pikes, arrows and some cannon. Battlefields where over five square miles you could not step on the ground because of the dead bodies.
That it had only the lightest veneer of anything to do with Christianity, since then, the Chinese governments have been very leery of too much Christianity.
Praise God, while weeping for America.
If they are genuinely Christian in their deeds, this could be a good thing for civilization (especially as the West slides into post-modernist, post-religious, post-family decline)