A recent article
in The New York Times was titled “Keeping the Faith.”
It focused on Pope Benedict XVI’s oft declared vision
of combating secularism and “re-Christianizing the Continent.”
As one who has become aware of the whole post-Christian, post-modern
phenomena that has gripped Europe for at least two decades,
I was shocked. What do you mean, the church has become increasingly
marginalized and even irrelevant to Eastern and Western Europeans?
Don’t they know we’re about to celebrate John Calvin’s
500th birthday? When did such a large chasm between church and
society develop?
And what are the churches doing to counter this alarming trend?
The short answer is that as you peruse the Europe pages of
the 2008 edition of the Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study,
you will see what the churches in this region are doing and
will celebrate with me that the gospel is alive and having an
impact. |
