Forums > Living in Kunming > expat population in Kunming To reiterate and enlarge upon a thing I wrote in my first comment in this thread, spreading the Gospel is practically a commandment. To do so is a high calling.
I don't know where you get your ideas, but to my knowledge churches don't make money on foreign converts. At least none that I am familiar with. (I don't consider the Catholic Church to be of God.) The idea is simply to enlarge the Kingdom of God, to bring souls to salvation in Christ Jesus. You guys keep talking like there's money or something in it, or some kind of payoff, besides the spiritual one. Rather, it is always an additional expense for church members to support missionaries. I am sure there is no return on the dollar, to put it in economic terms. That's just plain misinformation, not unlike so much that I have read here. That kind of stuff is rumors borne of hatred and ignorance.
I don't know how you all got so hateful toward God and Christians. Your interpretations of history (and facts in general), your logic, and your feelings are all twisted into misperceptions and bold-faced lies. I am not going to continue debating with you. You have your false perceptions, and then there is the truth. God help you escape the former and find the latter.
At any rate, Jesus said "...I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." So there you have it. I am done.
Don't bother replying with any further diatribes. I won't be coming here again. Oh yeah, I will be praying for you. :-)
Forums > Living in Kunming > expat population in Kunming I am a hemisphere removed from most of you. That's why our "conversation" lags. I am not in China at present, but my heart is. I discovered this site yesterday, while looking for a certain building in Kunming where I spent a week or so last year. I don't have the address; I just know it's about half a mile down the street from one of the Wal-Marts. I know—-I know...you're saying, "Why doesn't he just ask God where it is?" Hahaha Now why didn't I think of that.
Forums > Living in Kunming > expat population in Kunming To sanyiseul: The status quo, the Laissez-faire existence you so treasure is a sham, a picture on a silk screen. And its not quite the serene scene you try to paint. It's life without hope. It's bondage to darkness.
As far as Christians being narrow minded, it would be more accurate to call them focused. They know what's to come because they believe what God says, not only in the Bible—which, though He didn't pen it with his own hand, inspired those who did—but also by the confirmation of that knowledge by the Holy Spirit. Don't forget, any of you who have read the Bible (even if only to get ammunition against Christians) that it says, "Spiritual things are spiritually discerned," meaning that you probably won't get the gist of the Word with your head immersed in the muck of the world.
To believe and to say that Christians are idiots, ignorant, narrow minded, etc., is how you cope with the realities they are telling you, realities you simply don't want to hear because you are helpless against them. Even if you murder every living Christian, the message they will have shared is the message of hope and salvation. Nothing in your repertoire can counter that, because the only answer you have for it is more of the same, the status quo ugliness of the world without God.
Forums > Living in Kunming > expat population in Kunming Being "religious" doesn't make one a true Christian. It's a pathetic thing when someone has to go to the Catholic Church to find an example of Christian behavior.
Forums > Living in Kunming > expat population in Kunming My heart hurts for those of you whose own hearts and minds are filled with anger and hatred. It's a scary thing to see people fling insults, not only at God's people, but at God himself. And it's worse than scary to see someone fling insults at the Holy Spirit—the one unpardonable sin. (Take note, people.)
But these are the very things that Jesus said would happen in the end times. Jesus said he came to create division among people—father would rise up against son, brother against brother, etc. Yes, many (if not most) wars are fought on religious grounds. Maybe that's because the stakes are highest where people's souls are concerned. (Even so, just because wars are waged in the name of religion [usually Chrisianity], that doesn't make it authentic—look at Ireland: does anyone really believe that "Protestants" and "Catholics" murdering each other is legitimate Christian behavior? That flies in the face of Scripture, as does much of what so-called Christians do. Jesus said we would know them by their fruits.)
It has always seemed idiotic and incredibly ignorant to me that Christians are often made out to be the bad guys in a world filled with sin. Several people on this thread bemoan that Christians have come to China to spread their religion, rather than just coming to do good for the Chinese people. They wonder why Christians don't just stay home to preach to themselves.
However, preaching the Gospel to the world is practically a commandment, and those who "go into all the world" will certainly receive just rewards at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Not that such rewards are their motivation. Their motivation is the love of Christ. Love for everyone...including you who despise them for doing it.
At some point, everyone is going to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, even those who die rejecting Him—only, for them it will be too late. Just so you know.
gc trotter
