{"id":3047,"date":"2010-07-27T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2010\/07\/there-are-now-more-christians\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T22:25:11","slug":"there-are-now-more-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2010\/07\/there-are-now-more-christians.html","title":{"rendered":"There are now more Christians&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128546334\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">than Commie Party members in China.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I look at how the West is receiving the good news of the gospel compared to the Chinese, I can\u2019t help but think of this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jesus said to them, \u201cTruly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. 32* For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the harlots believed him; and even when you saw it, you did not afterward repent and believe him. 33* \u201cHear another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.34* When the season of fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to get his fruit; 35 and the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first; and they did the same to them. 37 Afterward he sent his son to them, saying, \u2018They will respect my son.\u2019 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, \u2018This is the heir; come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.\u2019 39 And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?\u201d 41* They said to him, \u201cHe will put those wretches to a miserable death, and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.\u201d 42* Jesus said to them, \u201cHave you never read in the scriptures: \u2018The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; this was the Lord\u2019s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes? 43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a nation producing the fruits of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, there is time for us to repent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>than Commie Party members in China. 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