Back To Jerusalem

Back to Jerusalem gets its name from the fact that, since Pentecost,
the Gospel has primarily spread westward from Jerusalem -- first
to Europe, then the Americas, then to the Far East. But there is "no
firmly established church" among the two billion people in the area
from China's western border back to Christianity's origination point.

So thousands of Chinese Christians sense God nudging them westward
to complete the circuit "back to Jerusalem." Mainland Chinese and Chinese
expatriates living elsewhere have already sent more than one thousand
missionaries to witness in "the house of Buddha, the house of Hinduism,
and the house of Mohammed." And their announced aim is to send at
least 100,000.

Paul Hattaway notes in his book, BACK TO JERUSALEM, that participants
call themselves "an army of worms." They explain, "It will not be an army
of elephants that marches into nations like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and
Iran with the Gospel." Border guards can detect elephants.

Chinese Christians call themselves "an army of little ants, worms, and
termites who know how to work underground." One "worm" adds,
"Termites are very hard to detect. They do their destructive work
inside the walls of homes and underneath the floorboards. Usually,
the owner of the house has no clue that his magnificent structure
is being eaten away until it is too late and it collapses in a heap!
The termite can do what even an elephant is unable to do."

Perhaps they realize that in the process of evangelizing the rest
of the way back to Jerusalem, they know that some worms will
probably wind up "underground" in an additional sense -- buried
in martyrs' graves. When asked about safety, one leader answered,
"If self-preservation is that important, then there is no point in
going in the first place. God looks for children who are willing to
die for Him if necessary."

These Chinese Christians view their forty years of imprisonment,
not as a setback but as a "set up," schooling them and thousands
of others to share Christ in the most resistant parts of the world --
and the most strategic part as well.

Samuel Huntington, the great Harvard scholar, wrote what now
appears to be a prophetic book. He predicted a great clash of
civilizations between Islam and the West, and he predicted that
Islam would win. He may be right, but then he didn't take into
account God exercising a flanking movement -- 100,000 Chinese
Christians coming at Islam from the East. Isn't it just like God?
- - Chuck Colson

MORE!!!