West Port Experiment

An intriguing thought. I’ve frequently thought of how establishments, while nearly a thing of the past in the secular West, might yet be on the horizon in the East. Stranger things have happened. And, of course, there is that ‘little thing’ (!) of prophecy: “Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him” (Psalm 72:11). O, brethren, let us pray for this nation, and for any godly magistrates that He might raise up “for such a time as this!” Mark Noll in his New Shape of World Humanity: How American Experience (2010):

“But third, it is a different story where Christianity spreads in regions of economic strength, as especially in Chᴉna. In this rapidly strengthening Asian power, the systems of belief that once guided society are passing away. Before Maoism imploded, it badly damaged ancestral reliance on Confucian precepts. Christianity seems to be taking off in Chᴉna because more and more Chᴉnese seem to be seeking a new moral compass as Chᴉna itself makes a commanding entrance onto the world stage. David Jeffrey, the provost of Baylor University who for fifteen years has been regularly invited to lecture on Christian subjects at premier universities in Chᴉna, has asked a speculative question that should give foreign analysts pause. Once before, Jeffrey remarks, a great world power passed through tumultuous times as Christian ranks expanded on the margins of society. It was the late 3rd and early 4th centuries. In that turmoil the Emperor Constantine was converted and become, from the top of the imperial system, a supporter of Christianity as a new glue for empire. Is it impossible to imagine that a new Constantine might exist somewhere in the junior ranks of the Chᴉnese communist party?”