Christianity is the fastest growing religion in the world and it's the hardcores that comprise most of the growth. We don't need the sponsorship of the state. All we need to do is follow the Great Commission.
Indeed, Christianity is growing fastest in nations where it is persecuted, like China. The fervor and growth there is astonishing--estimates are that there are now more than 80 million Chinese Christians. As fast as the authorities can bulldoze the house churches and arrest the leaders, they move the Church and new leaders arise. The group our Church has sponsored there now tell us that they don't need our help anymore--they are self-sustaining. In fact, they are planning on sending missionaries to Europe in the next few years.
We have also sponsored (in part) the translation of the Bible into an obscure indigenous language in Guatamala. Every year, we send a team of our adult engineers and teens into remote villages there and install clean water systems and share the Gospel. It works.
I personally believe that one of the worst things that ever happend to Christianity was it being adopted as the official state religion of the Roman Empire. Wealth and power make us lazy, corrupt, and Laeodician.
I guess what I'm saying is it really doesn't matter what the the tour guide says the Roman Numerals in the Supreme Court building stand for. Teach your children well and leave the rest up to God. Don't depend on the State to do it. Governments are inherently corrupt and corrupting and trying to make them the instrument of God is a lost cause before it even starts.
I can't speak for B4ranch but I didn't see in his posts that he was worried for Christianity. At least not in particular. I'm amazed that you seem to have no concern for the complete rewriting of American history. Every religion, in fact every liberty of any kind, is at stake. America is what is being attacked here. But perhaps you hold our republic in as much contempt as any form of government!?! Your post gives that impression.
AMEN BROTHER!!
Recent election results have broken me of the notion that politics is any substitute for the salvation of society. Indeed, the worse government becomes the stronger people of The Way of Jesus become.
Bring it on, Pelosi. Government must be experienced for the evil that it is.
I do hope this is correct. I have read assertions that it is Islam that is the fastest growing religion.
Carolyn
There is the crux of it all. Thanks for the great post.