The Church The
Bible Built
Many years ago the
Reverend Robert Burris, now 90 years of age,
worked for four and one-half years as a
missionary in South China. As part of his
ministry
he journeyed into the mountains carrying
copies of the Scriptures in Chinese for
distribution. In this way, although he could
not speak fluent Chinese, the people were
given God's word.
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Toward the end of his
term Mr. Burris and three companions began a
180- mile
journey with 4,000 copies of the Chinese New
Testament. In the first ten days
about half of these New Testaments had been
distributed. Then, in the remote
countryside, they were stopped by five armed
bandits who took
everything--money, clothing, shoes--- and the
remaining 2,000 copies of the New Testament.
Mr. Burris and friends limped home barefooted
in their shirts and trousers,
glad to be alive.
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Approximately 25 years later when Mr. Burris
was the pastor of a church in
Ohio, he and his wife attended a lecture with
slides presented by a missionary
to South China. Among the slides shown was a
picture of the very place in
which he had been robbed by the bandits.
"Now," the missionary said, "we come to
the most important slide in my collection.
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"I call it The Miracle Church." The picture
on the screen showed a large
rough empty building. "This is The Miracle
Church," the missionary continued,
"Because no one knows who started it, or how,
every Sunday, 400 people attend,
each with a copy of The New Testament in
Chinese.
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No one knows were they got these New
Testaments. So far as is known, no
missionary or distributor ever went into these
mountains which are infested with
bandits and robbers. Yet today, the church is
there and the people have God's
Word".
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Mr. Burris smiled in gratitude. God's Word,
taken from him that day by
bandits had been building it's own church in
China for 25 years.
~ Author Unknown ~