Will the Church Have a Share of Power in China? - BreakPoint This Week
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
It's likely that there will be 300 million Christians in China by 2030, up from 75-100 million Christians estimated in China in 2020. That is a three-fold increase.
When the Communist Party in China took over in 1949 there were only 4 million Christians in China.During the reign of Mao, the total number of Christians didn't exceed 4million. Since the death of Mao in 1976, Christianity has grown at the same rate as the Chinese economy, 7-8% per year.
The church grows from a mustard seed. Christian's don't only live lives that are different from their neighbors, but better. John and Shane discuss how Communism isn't big enough to handle the holy spirit, neighborliness, and even grace.
John and Shane also discuss new Presidential executive actions and the state of persecution in the church.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Colson Center Podcast Network. |
| 0:03.7 | This is Breakpoint this week, a weekly briefing on faith, culture, worldview, and mission with John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:14.9 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. I'm Shane Morris. I'm here with John Stone Street talking about the stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. |
| 0:21.1 | You can find links to all of the stories that we talk about on today's program by visiting breakpoint.org. |
| 0:27.6 | Well, John, I never thought I'd say this, but I'm a little disappointed that a politician kept a promise. |
| 0:32.6 | And this is the first story of this week that we want to address because it came out just before this |
| 0:37.8 | recording. And it's Joe Biden, the new president, has kept the promise that he made to rescind |
| 0:44.2 | the Mexico City policy, which is generally known by critics as the global gag rule. And the |
| 0:50.5 | basic idea behind this longstanding policy originally put in place by President |
| 0:54.2 | Reagan is to prevent the United States from funding organizations that perform or refer for abortions |
| 1:02.1 | internationally. Now, the president has reinstated this after President Trump, of course, |
| 1:06.6 | rescinded it back at the beginning of his term. And so this is like a political football that |
| 1:10.4 | jumps back and forth and back and forth. But it's an important one. And it gives us occasion, |
| 1:15.5 | I think, to talk about some important, both political issues and moral issues, because this prevents |
| 1:21.6 | the United States from becoming quite literally an exporter of the sexual revolution and the |
| 1:26.4 | worst aspect of the sexual revolution and the worst aspect of the sexual |
| 1:27.7 | revolution, which is abortion. It keeps your tax dollars and my tax dollars from going |
| 1:33.2 | overseas to fund organizations we know nothing about, to do procedures we know nothing about, |
| 1:37.7 | procedures that would in many cases be illegal potentially in the U.S. And so the problem is |
| 1:43.3 | this goes whichever direction the White House goes. |
| 1:46.6 | And so if you live by the pen in this case, you die by the pen. Not only points to the way that the |
| 1:51.8 | United States has become far from an unmixed good internationally in terms of morality, but the way that we need a solution on the life issue that reaches beyond executive |
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