new church life: jan uary/february 2015
up with being lied to and “hungry for something to believe in.” She felt the
communist empire was ready to crumble, and that religion would have more
to do with the transformation than politics. Indeed this hunger was fed with
shipments of Bibles from all over the world – and copies of the Writings from
Bryn Athyn.
Now the same sort of hunger for spiritual truth may be transforming
China, where a brave New Church minister is feeding it at great personal
risk. We identify him only as Rev. Timothy. For his own protection we do not
publish his last name, but hopefully that will be changing. (See the report in
Church News on the New Church in Asia about encouraging happenings in
China – page 94.)
Denis de Chazal recently forwarded an article from the Financial Times of
London on The Rise of Christianity in China, which also has implications for
the growth of the New Church in this officially atheist country.
The article states that the amazing spread of Christianity in China is being
met with an escalating campaign of government repression, but it may be like
King Canute trying to hold back the tides.
Last April the Chinese government destroyed a towering Pro FW7F