“That is the sad thing, a historic Christian group is going away.”
Christianity is not part of an ethnology exhibit.
Constantinople used to be a great Christian center. It sent missionaries out who converted the slavs, Russians, Bulgars, etc. etc. It had a huge portrait of Christ hung over one of the main entry gates and called itself the “Christ-protected city”.
Then it lost all that. It didn’t covert the Arabs or the Turks, and it got swept away. (In five hundred years of contacts between the Greeks and the Turks, how many Turks were converted? How many Greek missionaries went to preach to the Turks? In five hundred years? When did Greek Christianity become just GREEK Christianity—a light hid under a bushel?)
Today the dream of the Greeks is for Constantinople to be Greek again. Sorry, that’s not enough.
Today’s Chinese Christians, even persecuted as they are at home, are sending out missionaries; these missionaries expect to be killed in the places to where they are sent, but they go anyway. Christianity for them is not a page in a history book, but a living faith.
Good news! More Muslims are coming to faith in Jesus!
I stand by my positions.
“Christianity is not part of an ethnology exhibit.”
LIke it or not, the ethnology is, part of its HISTORY. Now accept that gentle correcting.
“Today’s Chinese Christians, even persecuted as they are at home, are sending out missionaries; these missionaries expect to be killed in the places to where they are sent, but they go anyway. Christianity for them is not a page in a history book, but a living faith.”
The Christian faith is BOTH a living faith and historic. There, it now corrected.