Christians Rising, is a series of blogs devoted to what I think is a global rising of the Christian Faith in these challenging times inspired by the persecution of Christians worldwide. I urge all members of the faith to visit vomcanada.com to learn about Christians fighting for the right to openly practice their beliefs and to learn more about how to get involved to eradicate these attrocities. "Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong." 2 Corinthians 12:10 Chinese Christians Are Rising In spite of generations of repression and human rights violations against Christians,China’s faithful not only grow in numbers, their growth has exceeded the growth of communist party members. Depending upon your source, it is believed that in the 1950’s the average population of Christians in China was a few million. The government of China had been attempting to cull the Christian herd for decades since the Chinese revolution but could not manage to completely snuff it out. Today, depending on your sources, the Christian population is around 100 million faithful followers. It is believed that more people belong to the Christian church than there are members of the communist party (estimated at around 81 million). From a few million sixty years ago to a hundred million.The flock has grown in the face of serious adversity and persecution and torture, arrest and the demolition of churches. And yet it is estimated that by the year 2030 their Christian population will have grown to approximately 250 million. And by 2020 China will be able to boast the statistic of having the world’s largest Christian population. China! As Samuel Lamb said, one of the great Chinese Christian leaders, “through persecution, there will be growth.” It is unimaginable how right he turned out to be. Click "Read More" to continue.... One hundred million Chinese Christians from just a few million in sixty years heading toward a quarter of a billion. That’s a serious example of Christians rising.
In China, churches are burned, closed down, thousands of crosses have been removed from the rooftops. Gathering to pray or worship is outlawed and the faithful either practice their faith visibly and take the risk of arrest, torture and imprisonment, or they go underground and gather in unmarked buildings or in each others’ homes. Talk about perseverance. The great and mighty fist of China’s communist oppression of its own people, it's terrible record on human rights, is no surprise. They are one of the most oppressive outlawed vicious regimes in human history. But that great big fist just can't seem to stomp out those peacenik, turn the other cheek, grace and mercy loving souls who persist at worshiping Jesus Christ. It reminds me of early Christianity, the developing years when the faithful were forced to practice their beliefs underground, in secret. How they used to display the sign of the fish on their homes, the IXOYEC OR ICHTHUS fish, to let other Christians know that this place contained Christians or Christian sympathizers and that it was a safe place for them. Or how one person would draw a half arc and if the other person drew the completing half to reveal the fish then they identified themselves as Christians. Hidden places of worship, hidden expressions of faith and a hidden underground, secret community. That was the life of early Christians. But from that grew a faith of over two billion followers. That's sort of what is going on in China today. Growth in the darkness of persecution. In China, Christians are indeed rising.
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