Why the American church ignores Europe? (Jehovah, Mormons, believing, Bible)
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missionaires do lot more than convert in fact that is secondary. members of my church that are engineers; drillers for water( oil here) and even dentist volunteer each summer vacation time to do work to bring clean water and other improvements in life. Most mission work is volunteers and mostly actually work.Europe doesn't need that.
We're talking specifically about CHRISTIAN mission work, which is Gospel centered. Europe desperately needs that.
It is more expensive than having a missionary elsewhere even elsewhere in the US. Even though Europe is fairly liberal in regards to religion the fact that several European countries still have official national churches might pose a problem too if someone in power got a big in their ear. Moreover, most large denominations have local churches at least somewhere in Europe so their might be the issue of whose see or mission territory it is.
Benny Hinn ministries and Billy Graham and a few other American televangelists have done well documented tours of Europe
Many Europeans are Catholic (not counting the Muslim areas). Are people saying that they should convert to some other Christian denomination? I don't think Benny Hinn or Billy Graham are Catholic.
Many Europeans are Catholic (not counting the Muslim areas). Are people saying that they should convert to some other Christian denomination? I don't think Benny Hinn or Billy Graham are Catholic.
So many Europeans are Catholic in name only. Infact more and more people are even abandoning the Catholic faith in Europe. Infact in France over 50% of people have never been to a church. The UK is similar as well.
In addition there are more Muslims attending mosques in the UK on friday than Anglicans on a Sunday.
The two fastest growing religions in Europe are secularism (no religious affiliation, agnosticism, atheism, &ct.) and Islam.
In addition there are countries in Europe where a majority of the people have stated they are not Christian and they are the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Eastern part of Germany.
Germany has more atheists than the USA yet the USA has 3 times more the population as Germany.
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Last edited by CraigCreek; 12-15-2014 at 09:43 AM..
I'm not sure what European countries you are thinking of because Europeans are very religious. The people that choose not to be I doubt could be persuaded by American missionaries.
Europeans are not religious. They are and have left their churches in droves.
missionaires do lot more than convert in fact that is secondary. members of my church that are engineers; drillers for water( oil here) and even dentist volunteer each summer vacation time to do work to bring clean water and other improvements in life. Most mission work is volunteers and mostly actually work.Europe doesn't need that.
And that is the problem. They think they can "buy" converts by being nice instead of teaching them. That was seen to be a failure in China where we get the term "Rice Christians" from. They came for food and left when it was gone.
A friend went on a mission, They played ball, prayed , sang, distributed food and did no teaching at all.
Locally a neighbor goes on missions to Africa. Spends 1/2 the year here and gets money from local churches, then goes to Africa. Oops he buys homes for himself and his kids and as rentals, with a LOT of the donated money. Brings one or two "natives" over occasionally. Oh he also got beat up for getting involved in their politics. Never mentions teaching either.
I suspect Paul would not have been happy.
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