A Walk through World Church History.

History and the general outlook you get from it was another thing that made me look to the east. I recall a number of times hearing sermons etc. about how we need to evangelize the far east with the 10/40 window, Jesus film, etc. Because "those people have never heard the gospel!", or that have never been "evangelized". The assumption when these people hear the gospel (Along with a few other isolated groups in africa and south america). Then Jesus will come back!!


Well if you study Church history of the world (And not just that of Europe and the US) then you realize this thinking is not the least bit accurate.


I am going to quote some from my newest hot linked document "East of the Euphrates"

"It is one of the ironies of history that Christianity, which was born in Asia, has become ‘alien’ in its own home. The Christians in China, for example, were persecuted in the ninth and fifteenth centuries because Christianity was considered to be a ‘foreign’ religion. One important reason for the ‘alieness’ of Christianity is that the history of Christianity in Asia is either forgotten or ignored even by the Asian Christians themselves. Having lost a sense of history, and thus their own identity, Christians were not able to participate fully in the historical process in the continent. "


I heartily recomend "East of the Euphrates" for those who like history, and like to read those subjects that often get passed over by the typical Western Eurocentric books, classes etc.