Mr Xi said, “Persecution is like fire. I would use the word like purify. If we want pure gold, we have to let it go through fire.”
He said that Christianity has become “cool” among Chinese people who thought of it as a Western religion and thought all parts of Western culture were popular or cool.
“The blessing [of persecution] for the church is that when we are facing the difficulties, the serious believers will stay. So, it doesn’t matter what happens.”
Persecution leaves the church full of believers serious about their faith – serious enough that threats of arrest or physical pain can’t keep them from meeting. Those who are there only because it’s “cool” quickly fall away. Churches full of pure, refined gold tend to be UNSTOPPABLE.”
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