The Blood of American Christianity Will Be The Seed Of The Church
December 9, 2015 by Benjamin L. Corey Leave a Comment
It’s a funny thing what makes Christianity grow and
flourish.
In the Second Century, Tertullian (one of the early
Christian theologians), wrote in Apologeticus that the “blood of the martyrs is
the seed of the church.”
For the first few hundred years of our faith,
Christianity was an illegal cult of nonviolent enemy lovers who were
systematically slaughtered by the powers that be, even though they refused to
fight back. Dying instead of fighting had an interesting effect: it caused the
growth of the church to explode. Thus, Tertullian argued that death is the very
thing that makes the church to grow.
We still see this principle play out today. For example,
if we look to China, we see a place where there is systematic persecution of
Christians, yet an explosion of Christianity to the point they are on pace to
become the largest Christian nation in the world.
We often call the Kingdom of Jesus an “upside-down”
Kingdom because it operates on principles that are contrary to anything else we
find in the world– and this is also true with how it grows.
It’s an upside-down Kingdom that grows in upside-down
ways.
Read more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/formerlyfundie/the-blood-of-american-christianity-will-be-the-seed-of-the-church/
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