The crackdown is bad, but its evidence of the good news that Christianity is spreading like wildfire in China. There were estimates that China would become the world’s largest Christian nation within the next 40 or 50 years. That prediction looks more and more realistic all the time.
And yet, Communist China is experiencing far greater expansion of Christianity than almost anywhere else in the world.
In what is a very strange inversion of the course of history, Christianity is probably thriving better in adversity than in in places where it has enjoyed relative calm and support. Christianity is dwindling in the cradle of its greatest earlier growth, the Western world and more particularly Europe, where Christianity has largely been abandoned. Inroads made by a competing theology, which is ruthlessly dedicated to the objective of displacing every other manifestation of worship to a Supreme Being, has obscured the continued decline of the Christian faith, and filled the vacuum created by the self-induced retreat of Christianity. This, however, is only by making some degree of parity between Islam and the Judeo-Christian ethos.
Would it not be ironic if China becomes the birthplace of a new Renaissance of Christianity?