Did you know that while Christianity is loosing ground in the US it’s taking China by storm. Here is a great quote from Philip Yancey’s book What's So Amazing About Grace.
One China expert estimates that the revival in China represents the greatest numerical revival in the history of the church. In an odd way, the government hostility ultimately worked to the church’s advantage. Shut out of the power structures, Chinese Christians devoted themselves to worship and evangelism, the original mission of the church, and did not much concern themselves with politics. They concentrated on changing lives, not changing laws
I love that last line “The concentrated on changing lives, not changing laws.” Sure makes me wonder what we could do in this country if we would take the tremendous amount of money and effort that is involved in “christian politics” (whatever that is) and we put it toward changing lives not laws.
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