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Christianity germinated in Israel, and the apostle Paul travelled west to Ephesus, Corinth and Rome to plant the early churches. Gradually Christianity spread to rest of medieval Europe, and later, the Reformation and other significant movements took place.

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?
 
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Christianity germinated in Israel, and the apostle Paul travelled west to Ephesus, Corinth and Rome to plant the early churches. Gradually Christianity spread to rest of medieval Europe, and later, the Reformation and other significant movements took place.

How is Christianity today? I live in Singapore, and consistently hear from native Europeans that most people in Europe do not believe or go to church. Why has it come to this?
Much of the decline is in the Anglican and Catholic denominations. Recent surveys show that protestant churches are staying fairly stable. Having been forced to attend an Anglican church for 3 years, I can understand why people are deserting it. Another force is immigration. Many if not most, migrants are not Christians. I went back to England 3 years ago. There are mosques everywhere. I'd never seen one in England when my family emigrated in 1964.
 
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Christianity germinated in Israel, and the apostle Paul travelled west to Ephesus, Corinth and Rome to plant the early churches. Gradually Christianity spread to rest of medieval Europe, and later, the Reformation and other significant movements took place.

How is Christianity today? I live in Singapore, and consistently hear from native Europeans that most people in Europe do not believe or go to church. Why has it come to this?
We learn from our Savior and Teacher in Matthew 7:24-27 who's faith will endure, and why, and who's faith will collapse, and why. Gradually as you get older, you start to realize these words are for real. It really works as Christ says. It's not just a bonus virtue (to do as He commands), but actually Life or Death.
 
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Much of the decline is in the Anglican and Catholic denominations. Recent surveys show that protestant churches are staying fairly stable. Having been forced to attend an Anglican church for 3 years, I can understand why people are deserting it. Another force is immigration. Many if not most, migrants are not Christians. I went back to England 3 years ago. There are mosques everywhere. I'd never seen one in England when my family emigrated in 1964.

I do know some Brits at bible study group. The founder of Alpha, a Christian workshop which has been attended by millions worldwide, is Nick Gumbey from UK.

What about people from other parts of Europe? How is the state of the churches in other countries?
 
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We learn from our Savior and Teacher in Matthew 7:24-27 who's faith will endure, and why, and who's faith will collapse, and why. Gradually as you get older, you start to realize these words are for real. It really works as Christ says. It's not just a bonus virtue (to do as He commands), but actually Life or Death.

It is almost like familiarity breed contempt - - or boredom. After almost 2000 years of Christianity, people become indiferent.
 
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I do know some Brits at bible study group. The founder of Alpha, a Christian workshop which has been attended by millions worldwide, is Nick Gumbey from UK.

What about people from other parts of Europe? How is the state of the churches in other countries?
Bayless Conley is an evangelist, pastor of Cottonwood Church Ca. He's done a lot of preaching in Europe. The reason is simple. The local church is dead.

Millions have attended alpha courses, read the books, completed the program. It means little if they do not get born again. Billy Graham said that he would be delighted if 5% of those who came forward were in reality born again.The parable of the sower is 100% applicable today.
 
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Why has it come to this?

Faith is a personal relationship with God through Jesus. It can be taught, but has to be accepted by each person themselves.

There is a long history of Christianity florishing and dying in England and in europe.
Currently we are in a period of decline caused by the fall out from two horrific world wars and the acceptance of God dening ideas like evolution.

What is to be done?

Well candles shine brighter in the dark.

Christians need to start living there faith and accepting the consquences of doing so.
 
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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 :)
 
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