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News: Christianity finds a fulcrum in Asia
Posted on Monday, August 13 @ 10:03:37 PDT by Norman Voss |
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I present this article here at Planet Preterist to help bring us up to date on some promising good news that is starting to become recognized in China. We at my local church and several others from the Restoration movement (Christian Churches, churches of Christ) have been having important meetings with Chinese government officials who oversee the expansion of Christianity within China. Some of our leaders such as Max Lucado, Bob Russell and Rick Atchley have also been working along the same lines.
The Chinese are concerned with organized religion becoming dominated by central organizations and men. They are thus seeking out relations with our Restoration movement because of our independent and local organizational approach provides a replica that would be their preference for the model that flourishes within China. This article helps to shed light upon this aspect of the Chinese religious movement as well as the overall possibilities for the future of the Christian world. Preterist would do well to take notice and work to help influence this next great Christian movement.
There is already a huge house church movement underway and it may actually be the model of choice in the long run.
Norman Voss
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“Christianity finds a fulcrum in Asia”
By Spengler
Ten thousand Chinese become Christians each day, according to a stunning report by the National Catholic Reporter's veteran correspondent John Allen, and 200 million Chinese may comprise the world's largest concentration of Christians by mid-century, and the largest missionary force in history. [1] If you read a single news article about China this year, make sure it is this one.
I suspect that even the most enthusiastic accounts err on the downside, and that Christianity will have become a Sino-centric religion two generations from now. China may be for the 21st century what Europe was during the 8th-11th centuries, and America has been during the past 200 years: the natural ground for mass evangelization. If this occurs, the world will change beyond our capacity to recognize it. Islam might defeat the western Europeans, simply by replacing their diminishing numbers with immigrants, but it will crumble beneath the challenge from the East.
You may read the complete article at the following web site.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IH07Ad03.html
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Re: Christianity finds a fulcrum in Asia (Score: 1)
 by Starlight on Tuesday, August 14 @ 06:43:46 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | Just a few points about what may be drawn from this referenced article.
1. Christianity appears to be skyrocketing in China and again God is in charge.
2. The growth is largely protestant due to several dynamics in the current political and cultural climate.
3. Government interference in the development of Christianity is indeed present, but in some providences Christianity is actually encouraged from government sources.
4. The question is whether these governmental involvements are going to be long term developments or are they temporary aberrations that will eventually subside and disappear.
5. Even if government involvement disappears will the corrosiveness of this governmental oversight have lasting effects upon how Christianity is perceived in China?
6. Typically churches are required to have a government reporter monitor their activities to insure they are not teaching anti government positions.
7. Home churches are a very prominent aspect of the spreading Christian movement, is this more preferable than the South Korean model of large massive churches?
8. The Pentecostal variety of protestant Christianity appears to have the largest influence, what are the consequences of this theological issue upon the development of Christianity within China.
9. If Christianity becomes central to China in the next 20 years, what would be the ramifications for their relationships with their neighbors such as North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, India and others?
10. What would be the future dynamics of the relationship between China and the United States if there became a wide commonality between the two of them due to their Christian majority?
11. How about China’s influence upon the Islamic world, would their dynamics change and become more positively influential; would they draw closer to western values?
12. Do we see the day when America will become religiously dead similar to Europe and in decline and China and Asia becomes the focal point of Christianity by the end of this century?
Blessings
Norm
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