Don't Crush My Hopes and Dreams

Often, in our zeal to help someone, we can do more harm than good. We inundate another person's needs with our excesses and even kindness. We want to help, and we would like to do it quickly. We can't wait forever for God to show up; that is too unpredictable. We better act now. After all, if we are feeding the poor, helping the disadvantaged, what could be wrong?

The fastest growing church in the world today is in China. In the last 50 years, a handful of churches has exploded into nearly 100 million followers of Jesus being members of both the aboveground and underground church in China. Thousands upon thousands of Chinese will be celebrating Christmas this year for the first time. Both sociologists and missiologists agree that by the year 2050, China will be 50 percent Christian, if the Chinese church continues to grow at its current rate. Already, Chinese missionaries are being sent around the world sharing the Good News, especially in the Middle East, as a part of the growing "Back to Jerusalem" movement - Chinese missionaries traveling back along the old Silk Road.

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