Are Bibles Needed in China? Simple Math Says Yes!
Amity Printing is the only company allowed to print Bibles in China. Its Chinese facility has printed 41 million Bibles for distribution in China and 9 million Bibles for foreign distribution since 1987. There are those who say Amity’s printing facility in China makes smuggling Bibles into the communist country obsolete.
“... [W]ith the new Amity Press operational in Nanjing, smuggling is a waste of resources ...,” the Rev. Daniel Willis, former CEO of the Bible Society, once said in a press release. Yet with a simple math equation it’s easy to see Amity’s Bible printing amounts to rationing God’s word. The equation shows that for the 1.3 billion people living in China today, access to a Bible remains elusive.
The Math
The latest figure for Amity’s annual press run was 6 million Bibles. Divide that by the 1 billion, 330 million people in China and that means the communist country allows access to one Bible for every 222 people each year. With China’s Bible printing allowance, our Oklahoma town, population 35,000, would have access to only 158 Bibles a year.
We are grateful China allows Amity to legally print Bibles. But courageous believers in China do not want to limit the number of Bibles printed each year. They desire their neighbors receive the word of God whether they are Christians or not! This is why they are persecuted.
Many organizations, including ours, provide these new converts with God’s precious word. Support your church or denomination’s efforts to provide our Chinese brothers and sisters with Bibles. Pray for the day when everyone in China will have God’s word readily available to them with no restrictions and no barriers.
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