CHINA LIGHT:

Magazine Writer Says China's Growing Christian Church Will Change Nation From Within (Chad Groening, November 11, 2003, AgapePress)

An author and journalist who spent a number of years in China says at the rate Christianity is growing there, it will eventually bring about a change in the government -- although in the short term, the Communist country could lurch into extreme nationalism.

David Aikman is the former Beijing bureau chief for Time magazine. During his time in China, he witnessed the incredible growth of the Chinese underground church and, based on his observations, he says in time the Christian lamb may very well tame the Chinese dragon.

"If the Christians, in effect, infiltrate their way up to the top of the Chinese political system, we will not be facing China as a rival, and certainly not as an adversary," Aikman says. [...]

Aikman has recently published Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity is Transforming China and Changing the Global Balance of Power. In the book he speculates that, if the present rate of growth continues, within 20 to 30 years, it is probable that between 20 and 30 percent of China will be Christian.

Which takes care of the long term, but in the meantime we should turn up the torque on their human rights abuses.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 12, 2003 6:42 PM