Doesn’t matter. /they’re getting killed elsewhere.
The Holy Spirit works where He works. He is a person, the third person of the trinity. It is not a matter of programs and plans per se. He often works through the faithful evangelism of His people but then again He is the one sanctifying us is He not.
Because there is a small, wealthy, leftist, secular tribe of media-savvy people who form the beating heart of the extremely suicidal assault on Christianity.
And because they are smart people of good taste, they chose not to live in Those Other Places.
So in those other places, Christianity survives, even thrives.
These suicidal but strangely not insane people chose not to live in Iran, and Christianity there is expanding.
Mostly they do not live in China and Korea —Christianity there also is expanding.
They definately do not live in Africa, aside from some key capitol cities, and Christianity there also is expanding.
But their view is that the key element in thwarting their effort (and that of their lackeys) to create heaven on earth is Western Civ, with all the troublesome questions that they pose to Leftists:
“Hey, when is Communism going to work, show me somewhere that it has”
“Why can Lefties have a media voice, but we can’t..?”
Such questions energize elections, making them real instead of artifice strictly for show.
These questions are very difficult to win in a real dialogue with the questioner, so their solution is for the questioners to Simply Go Away —as in forever.
Interesting statistic.
Amway was booming in America about the same time as megachurches and televangelism, but not so much anymore. Now it's booming in the third world along with Mormonism, Scientology, megachurches, and televangelism.
Birds of a feather...
Let the USA fall to European centric sicialism and it will trigger a global trafe collapse eith 7 years; then from the misery Christianity will again rise.
is this actually a serious question? Europe AND the US are first world nations, where even the poor live a standard of living that is enviable. The second and third world are still experiencing suffering and instability... so of course religion is a comfort and offers HOPE.
FYI, I’m not an atheist, dumping on religion, or judging and evaluating.
The answer: James 2:5
“the poor are rich in faith....”
The rest of us have so much, our faith is too much in our comfort of having all we need.
I have worked with the real poor of Nicaragua where the stark poverty everywhere knocks the breath out of you. Having nothing, they easily believe........
Because life is still hard in those places and people have not forgotten gratitude.
Christianity is booming where people are threatened by either Islam or communism. They need a rallying point, and Christianity is it.
But in North America and Europe, Christian churches pointedly refuse to be a rallying point. They are either infested with liberal inclusiveness, and keep assuring their putative congregants that they are not threatened, merely xenophobic and bigoted. Or they are co-opted by some form of left wing ideology that is a threat in and of itself.
But they are threatened in the Northern hemisphere, and let down by their Church. So either they will form a new, more militant and more orthodox church, or they will espouse some possibly hate-filled secular ideology that the Churches will loudly deplore and condemn, but nobody will be listening, because they have made themselves irrelevant and have no mission that answers their flocks’ real needs.