The era in which Chinese Christians were a tiny sect dependent on foreign missionaries and looking overseas for leadership is over. China needs the talents and the idealism of its growing Christian minority (which may soon be ten percent of the total population) if the Middle Kingdom is to flourish in the 21st century. The question may not be whether Jesus would join the Communist Party, but whether today at a time when the Communist Party is deeply corrupt, its Marxist ideals dead, Chinese society divided by materialism, and socialism a global failure, a young Mao Tse Tung would have joined the Christian Church.
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