What Happens When You Forget Your Country is a Mission Field?
“It took several centuries to convert Britain to Christianity, but it has taken less than forty years for the country to forsake it.” (1.)
“In unprecedented numbers, the British people since the 1960s have stopped going to church, have allowed their church membership to lapse, have stopped marrying in church and have neglected to baptize their children. Meanwhile, their children, the two generations who grew to maturity in the last thirty years of the twentieth century, stopped going to Sunday school, stopped entering confirmation or communicant classes, and rarely, if ever, stepped inside a church to worship in their entire lives.” (2.)
According to Ruth Gledhill, “Church attendance in Britain is declining so fast that the number of regular churchgoers will be fewer than those attending mosques within a generation, research published today suggests.” She writes further, “According to Religious Trends, a comprehensive statistical analysis of religious practice in Britain, published by Christian Research, even Hindus will come close to outnumbering churchgoers within a generation.” (3.)
1. Callum G. Brown The Death of Christian Britain As quoted in Dr. Al Mohler’s blog http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=1146
2. Callum G. Brown The Death of Christian Britain As quoted in Dr. Al Mohler’s blog http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=1146
3. Ruth Gledhill The Times (London) As quoted in Dr. Al Mohler’s blog http://www.albertmohler.com/blog_read.php?id=1146
