Spain's Health

Another view of the state of Spain's Spiritual Health:

From: Religion Today Summaries
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Date: Wednesday, 01 June, 2005 10:06 AM
Subject: Crosswalk - Religion Today Summaries for June 1, 2005
Missionary: Western Europe's Darkness Foreshadows America's Spiritual
Decline <http://www.crosswalkmail.com/qielepz_jckwccc.html>
Chad Groening, AgapePress
A Southern Baptist missionary stationed in Madrid, Spain, contends that
Western Europe is currently the hardest mission field on Earth. A
32-year-old Christian worker says the hostility to Christianity has
become
so severe in Europe. He is responsible for ministering to missionary
children throughout Western Europe and for taking part in evangelistic
efforts. He says it is a tough place to share the gospel. The region is
marked by "a spiritual deadness that you can't believe," he notes. The
American missionary believes Europe can be viewed as a sort of
bellwether
for the future cultural and spiritual scene in the U.S. "Living in
Europe,"
he says, "I see Europe as probably 50 years ahead of where the U.S. is
going
spiritually. In Madrid, the Spanish equivalent of the House of
Representatives just legalized same-sex marriages." What has descended
on
Western Europe, he asserts, is "just a spiritual darkness." He says
most
people see churches or cathedrals as just "the buildings and nothing
else.
They are empty on Sunday morning. There's no spiritual sensitivity
whatsoever." Nevertheless, he remains prayerful and determined, ever
grateful for his opportunity to learn and serve in what feels to him
like
"the hardest mission field in the world."

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