This is a quote from a magazine called The Economist.
The date of the article is November 1, 2014…
“Yang Fenggang of Purdue University, in Indiana,
says the Christian church in China has grown by an average of 10% a year since
1980. He reckons that on current trends there will be 250m Christians by around
2030, making China’s Christian population the largest in the world. Mr. Yang
says this speed of growth is similar to that seen in fourth-century Rome just
before the conversion of Constantine, which paved the way for Christianity to
become the religion of his empire.”
So, in the world’s largest country (by population)—which
is also the world’s largest Communist (atheist) country—Christianity is surging
to the point that China is likely to become the largest Christian nation in the
world. That is amazing, to me.
This is a country in which (according to the same
Economist article) “perhaps as many as half a million Christians were harried
to death, and tens of thousands more were sent to labour camps…” under the rule
of Mao Zedong. In other words, Christianity not only continues but, in fact,
thrives despite significant difficulty and persecution.
“…I will put my hope in God!” Psalm 42:5
