Christian Revolution in Indonesia: Religion Spreads - TIME
Instead, in the heart of the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, Christians held a Pentecostal revival, complete with faith healing and speaking in tongues. As a tropical downpour fell, believers' tears mixed with rain — and a line of sick and disabled took to the stage to claim they had been cured by a God they, like Indonesian Muslims, call Allah.
Comments: We could (and some do) get bent out of shape at Christians calling our Christian God Allah. Technically there is a huge difference. But I wonder if we would be missing the forest for the trees? However we see it, the Indonesian Christian surge seems significant.
Instead, in the heart of the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, Christians held a Pentecostal revival, complete with faith healing and speaking in tongues. As a tropical downpour fell, believers' tears mixed with rain — and a line of sick and disabled took to the stage to claim they had been cured by a God they, like Indonesian Muslims, call Allah.
Comments: We could (and some do) get bent out of shape at Christians calling our Christian God Allah. Technically there is a huge difference. But I wonder if we would be missing the forest for the trees? However we see it, the Indonesian Christian surge seems significant.
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