Here's an excerpt from the article:
"Zhang Shikun, director of the science and technology bureau of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, said: 'The team, comprised of experts on child-bearing, will conduct surgery in the quake-hit areas to provide technological support for those wanting to give birth to another [child].'"
Technological support? Is that what they're calling this? This is human life that you're playing with, not some piece of machinery.
God has decided to build his church upon the continent of Asia, where there is a great concentration of pain and oppression. The gospel is growing exponentially in Asia, despite the animosity of communist governments. Praise God that Christ is flourishing in that part of the world.
The terms governments around the world use for issues like these are ridiculous. I've read several articles now about how China's one child policy is brainless and devastating in so many areas. Thank God for people He has called to reach out to China.
ReplyDeleteIt's even better than God simply calling missionaries to Asia. There are networks of home-based churches all over the place and Christianity is especially strong in Korea, I think it was. The church is arguably stronger in Asia than it is in many other parts of the world. The same goes for some places in Africa, too, actually. America really isn't the stronghold of Christianity that it once was, seeing as some African churches felt the need to send missionaries to the U.S. (Although, I am a non-believer in the whole "America-as-Christian-nation" mythos that so many people try to adhere to.)
ReplyDeleteThat is true. I didn't specify where the missionaries were coming from. I think most missions work should be carried out by natives anyway, unless the country is completly unreached. All of this brings up a point though. If America has basically lost it's status as the "stronghold of Christianity", then what's wrong here? What aren't we doing to keep the candle burning?
ReplyDeleteWell, should America be the one to keep the candle burning at all? I think that is a better question. Or, better yet, is the flame really dying? Now, of course, we may not be able to answer those questions precisely, but as far as America is concerned, many of us still seem to think that America is required to be the big kid in the sandbox, especially when so much of American Christianity is so weak.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that's a fair requirement for any country. American evangelicals do seem to make a lot of hooplah over that though. However, we shouldn't forget what the Bible says about the blessings a country can recieve for openly honouring God. Of course, that could easily become a selfish desire on our part, thus revealing corruption within the Church. I'm not sure the flame is dying, because God's way is supposed to be the less traveled way anyway. (Lots of "ways" in there.) Plus, until the rapture, the Holy Spirit is supposed to be active, so I think we can safely assume the candle is still burning. We could be wrong, of course. But then, we could be doing more to spread the Gospel in our own country or at least ask God to strengthen our weaknesses.
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