It seems as though the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is completely blind to the fact that God, who created the universe and redeems his people, cannot be stamped out through brute force.
The CCP under Xi Jinping regards Christianity as a dangerous foreign import, with party documents warning against the infiltration of Western hostile forces in the form of religion.
Retreat raided
The Guiyang Renai Reformed Church is a small house church with fewer than 100 members. CCP agents banned the church in 2018 for refusing to join the government-sanctioned Three Self Patriotic Movement. All religious events were cancelled and church equipment and signs were removed.
In China
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long had a campaign to repress Chinese Christians. Most recently this has consisted of blatant destruction of churches, crosses and religious symbols. While these measures are devastating and very demoralising, they obviously have not been enough to wipe out faith. So a new law is to come into play in May 2021 to further subjugate Christians. Administrative Measures for Religious Clergy will come into force on 1 May 2021. To operate legally, religious clergy – i.e., those who engage in religious teaching activities - will need to registered and comply with a number of regulations:
Author’s Note: Interested readers can find all previous volumes of this series here.
Today, we reach Vol. 50 of these studies. Therefore, I must thank: Lord Jesus Christ, Townhall editors and management, loyal readers – including those who send me inspiring personal Gmails, and husband David for his thoughtful edits.
Over the last year, readers have asked, “Where is Vol. 1?” The topic was Melchizedek, but not headlined “Vol. 1” when posted on RedState in Sept. 2019. Then, last year, when the first study was transferred to Townhall and chronologically inserted into my archive
, it was distanced from Vol. 2, dated Feb. 2, 2020. Now, to “celebrate” Vol. 50, I felt called to again write about “Melchizedek” and connect to Vol. 1 given my fascination with the controversy surrounding his brief appearance in Genesis.