How is Christianity in Europe today? I live in Singapore, and consistently hear from native European expats that most people in Europe do not believe or go to church. Why has it come to this?
Hello Roman. IN my experience only a tiny % of people are born again believers. Perhaps it ties in with what we are to expect in these End Times just before the return of the Lord. A great apostacy and the rise of a re-born, pagan Roman Empire. It certainly looks plausible now.
I heard two speakers on this subject of UK church decline and they made two made interesting speculations:
The first, Ken Ham from Answers in Genesis blamed compromise on evolution for the downward trajectory of the church, saying that as soon as the church accepted evolution in some shape or form, theistic evolution, old earth creation, even trying to have no stance on it at all, as soon as the church moved from the biblical foundation it was on a four generation staged decline. The first generation to compromise would experience some sort of superficial relief, but the knocking away of the biblical foundations would cause decline obvious in generation 2. Eventually the youth would fall away because they could see that their elders didn't really believe it. 'It doesn't matter what the bible says, trust Jesus anyway and you'll feel better', to paraphrase what he said. Jesus quoted from Genesis but 'the church' would look on it as an Aesop's fable.
The second who's name currently escapes me blamed World War 1. Much of the church were beating the drum for this war, even on war memorials today it says 'For the Glory of God'. Every family lost at least one person, the carnage was hideous, many families turned away from the church at this point. In addition spiritualism and the occult rapidly became more popular as grieving parents tried to contact their boys. Whatever the 'spirits' told grieving parents it certainly wasn't the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I don't know if these two scenarios are true, they could be.
God Bless