When I first heard the rumor, I was skeptical. But recent research has backed it up: Facebook is about to decline. It was a pretty impressive run – more like an explosive flash in the pan. But Facebook is about to follow CB radios, Hula Hoops and Bell Bottoms off into the pastures of relative obscurity. Seems like nothing but nothing keeps on growing; every trend has its few years of popularity and then it wanes.
Everything, that is, except for the impact on the world of a homeless, itinerant teacher from the lesser regions of a conquered country the size of New Hampshire, Who was tortured to death 2000 years ago. His followers, who originally numbered only 11, have added to their number.
Before He was crucified, Jesus made a preposterous prediction about how His “Kingdom” would grow:
” He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.”” (Matthew 13:31-32)
At last count (2010), people who called themselves Christians accounted for roughly 1/3 of the world population. That number is still growing…
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