Innocent Blood: Conversations

I am in China for 6 weeks. This is not the place to tell you in specifics what and why I am here, nor even where. But I can give a testimony. I came to faith in Christ when I was 17, in the fall of 1972. As my awareness of world missions grew, I can remember reading of the terrible persecution of the church in China and being told "pray for the Christians in China.“ In the 80’s I started reading of the explosive growth of the church. Reporters were stunned at the estimates of some 20 million believers. Now the estimates range from 70-120 million believers.

It has been my very great honor to travel all over China and to witness a sliver of the Great Awakening in China. They are organized. They are training. They are passionate. They are wrestling with both the new opportunities that increased prosperity affords them and also it’s dangers. In many places they have already seen how materialism has undermined their fervency.

The blood-guilt of 13 million abortions a year, 38,000 every day, has also devastated the faithful here. I have had occasion to read Psalm 32:1-5 with many believers. In this Psalm we read that if we cover over our own sin, we dry up; our strength is sapped away. But if we uncover it, and give it to God (through Christ), he will cover over our sin and we will find it no more. The Cross is the greatest cover up in all history.



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