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India has witnessed an explosive growth of Christian believers among their population. Predictably, such changes come with resistance.
The resistance can lead to a range of responses from open violence (like the events that led to the martyrdom of this writer’s personal friend Pastor Samuel Nayak, who was killed by a violent mob in his own ancestral village) to the simple criminalization of the Christian message itself. In India, Christ has been delivering on his promise that He will build his Church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. There have been a number of anti-Christian uprising and crackdowns since the turn of the century, some — like the one that led to the death of Pastor Samuel — have been bloody.
The opposition itself is built around one central allegation: that Christians have somehow ‘forced’ the conversions of the locals. In response, when mobs attack one of the demands they make (which includes the murder of pastor Samuel) is that they ‘reconvert’ to Hinduism. In Samuel’s instance, he was from a Christian family and had never once been Hindu.
More than that, Christianity, at its very core, is built on a foundation of faith, not works. If anyone were foolish enough to attempt forced conversions, you might gain followers of a sect, but definitionally that sect could not be authentically called Christian. As Jesus himself said, ‘Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.’ None of that has stopped pastors in India from being arrested on account of their faith because, as you see, […]
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