World Wide Christians Partner with Jesus' Place/
Would you like to react to this message? Create an account in a few clicks or log in to continue.
Who is online?
In total there are 18 users online :: 0 Registered, 0 Hidden and 18 Guests

None

[ View the whole list ]


Most users ever online was 386 on Sun 25 Apr 2021, 2:56 pm
Latest topics
»  HONEST REPORTING Defending Israel from Media Bias plz read REGULAR UPDATES
Good for Business A good read. EmptyYesterday at 10:42 pm by Admin

» Year of the Death of Jesus
Good for Business A good read. EmptyYesterday at 10:27 pm by Admin

» AISH
Good for Business A good read. EmptyYesterday at 10:01 pm by Admin

» BIBLE STUDY on VERSE
Good for Business A good read. EmptyYesterday at 9:59 pm by Admin

»  Chip Brogden CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS
Good for Business A good read. EmptyYesterday at 9:23 pm by Admin

» Israel War UPDATE
Good for Business A good read. EmptyYesterday at 9:09 pm by Admin

» ZAKA Tel Aviv
Good for Business A good read. EmptyYesterday at 9:07 pm by Admin

» israelAM
Good for Business A good read. EmptyYesterday at 9:04 pm by Admin

» WHY DID GOD CREATE EVIL
Good for Business A good read. EmptyYesterday at 4:36 pm by Admin

» WORTHY NEWS
Good for Business A good read. EmptyYesterday at 2:37 pm by Admin

» JIHAD WATCH
Good for Business A good read. EmptyWed 27 Mar 2024, 11:38 pm by Admin

» Gatestone Institute
Good for Business A good read. EmptyWed 27 Mar 2024, 11:18 pm by Admin

» ISRAEL BREAKING NEWS
Good for Business A good read. EmptyWed 27 Mar 2024, 9:54 pm by Admin

» Pressure from UN Threats
Good for Business A good read. EmptyTue 26 Mar 2024, 11:45 pm by Admin

» Ship that obliterated Baltimore bridge
Good for Business A good read. EmptyTue 26 Mar 2024, 11:44 pm by Admin

» PROPHESY NEWS WATCH
Good for Business A good read. EmptyTue 26 Mar 2024, 11:08 pm by Admin

» Be Fervent in Spirit
Good for Business A good read. EmptyTue 26 Mar 2024, 10:54 pm by Admin

» Remain in God - iBelieve Truth
Good for Business A good read. EmptyTue 26 Mar 2024, 1:25 am by Admin

» Amir Tsarfati BEHOLD ISRAEL
Good for Business A good read. EmptyTue 26 Mar 2024, 12:43 am by Admin

» WORTHY NEWS
Good for Business A good read. EmptyMon 25 Mar 2024, 11:00 pm by Admin

Navigation
 Portal
 Index
 Memberlist
 Profile
 FAQ
 Search

Good for Business A good read.

Go down

Good for Business A good read. Empty Good for Business A good read.

Post  Admin Fri 24 Sep 2010, 2:40 pm

Good for Business
Christianity in China
September 23, 2010 Chuck Colson
The man who owns the industrial valve company makes no secret of his
religious faith: He's a committed Christian. Once a week, he gathers
together his senior staffers for prayer. Employees are invited to attend
Bible studies on the premises and pray for one another's needs.
The factory owner is also quite open about another fact: When it comes
to hiring, he would choose Christians over non-Christians every
time—because he thinks they make better workers.
You may think this company is located in South Carolina—but
you'd be wrong. It's in southeastern China. The company is
exhibit "A" for the argument, backed up by social researchers,
that Christian faith is responsible for much of China's
productivity.
A faithful BreakPoint listener alerted me to an article from the BBC,
written by Christopher Landau. Landau reports that the valve
company's owner, Weng-Jen Wau, believes that the more Christian
employees he has, the better his business will prosper.
"If you're a Christian you're more honest, with a better
heart," Wau says. And if they do something wrong, "they feel
guilty—that's the difference," he notes.
An employee at Wau's factory agreed. "If everybody became a
Christian," he said, "it would have a very big impact, and would
really help the development of our factory."
Wau and his employees are not alone in believing this. The Chinese
government is studying the impact of Christian entrepreneurs and
Christian-run businesses. A professor at the Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences told Landau that it's clear to him that the growth of
Christianity and economic prosperity are taking place simultaneously in
Wenzhou—a city deeply influenced by Christian missionaries in the
past.
An American sociologist named Rodney Stark would not be surprised at
this finding: He's been saying the same thing for years. Stark is
the author of a wonderful book titled the Victory of Reason: How
Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success.
Stark writes that without Christianity' s commitment to "reason,
progress, and moral equality . . . today the entire world would be about
where non-European societies were in, say, 1800." This would be a
world "lacking universities, banks, factories, eyeglasses, chimneys,
and pianos"—not to mention scientists.
Amazingly enough, at the end of his book, Stark quotes a published
statement by Chinese scholars, who said they had no doubt that
Christianity is the source of Western prosperity! "The Christian
moral foundation of social and cultural life," they said, "was
what made possible the emergence of capitalism and the successful
transition to democratic politics."
For some time I've been saying that America's economic collapse
was the result of a moral and ethical collapse—and the abandonment
of Christian principles in public life. I find it amazing that a Chinese
factory owner can understand this, but our business, academic, and
political elites cannot.
The simultaneous rise of Christian faith and economic success in China
is just one piece of evidence that worldview matters. And that the
Christian worldview, above all others, allows us to thrive in—and
make sense of—the world we live in.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10942954
http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/15379
Admin
Admin
Admin

Posts : 81242
Join date : 2008-10-25
Age : 78
Location : Wales UK

https://worldwidechristians.forumotion.com

Back to top Go down

Back to top

- Similar topics

 
Permissions in this forum:
You cannot reply to topics in this forum