Та сила, которая заложена в Евангелии, не в красноречии проповедников – иначе обращающими души к Богу были бы люди; она – не в образованности проповедников, иначе ее источником была бы человеческая мудрость. Мы можем проповедовать и проповедовать, пока у нас не отвалится язык, пока мы не умрем от легочной недостаточности, – и все же, ни одна душа не обратится к Богу, пока со словом Бога не будет Святого Духа, дающего ему силу обращать души.
Та сила, которая заложена в Евангелии, не в красноречии проповедников – иначе обращающими души к Богу были бы люди; она – не в образованности проповедников, иначе ее источником была бы человеческая мудрость. Мы можем проповедовать и проповедовать, пока у нас не отвалится язык, пока мы не умрем от легочной недостаточности, – и все же, ни одна душа не обратится к Богу, пока со словом Бога не будет Святого Духа, дающего ему силу обращать души.
Чарльз Сперджен
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At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. What distinguishes the app from competitors is its use of what's known as channels: Public or private feeds of photos and videos that can be set up by one person or an organization. The channels have become popular with on-the-ground journalists, aid workers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who broadcasts on a Telegram channel. The channels can be followed by an unlimited number of people. Unlike Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networks, there is no advertising on Telegram and the flow of information is not driven by an algorithm. On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. In addition, Telegram's architecture limits the ability to slow the spread of false information: the lack of a central public feed, and the fact that comments are easily disabled in channels, reduce the space for public pushback. In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so.
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