The Great Commission
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
In the past England took this to heart, they sent out missionaries all over the world. but times have changed, the church in England is very weak, it has been under attack for many years. For us in America it’s hard to grasp a “State Church” but that’s a big part of what is known as Christian in England. England is a Christian Nation by its own law, America was set up never to have a state run church. this difference has help American churches to remain true to God’s word, and not be watered down by political correctness or any other idea a monarch wants to impose on the church for his benefit.
My Family and I just spent 3 weeks in Enland visiting Jacky’s family in the Norwich area. In our travals we visited many Churches, Some small with tons of passion for the Lord, others like St Pauls in London where the sevice was all tradition. To see the massive old cathedrails with all their treasures is amazing yet a bit sad knowing that the people of England for the most part have stop worshipping God.
We brought thousands of Bible tracts with us, so as we went along we handed them out, and had some one on one conversations with some of the English people. I can’t say that their reaction to the gospel was much different to that of Americans that I’ve witnessed to here in the states, but in some cases they were quicker to brush it off as a fairy tail. I asked a few who identified themselves as atheists if they knew of “Richard Dawkins” the famous Oxford college professor who has many in America buying his book that not only tries to say God doesn’t exist, and promotes a truly hateful message about a god (the Christian God) that he thinks doesn’t exist. To my surprize no one I spooke to has heard of him. That would make me conclude that the English are more agnostic already and have no need to buy books that promote something they already believe. So England now sends out Atheistic Evangelists to proselytize Americans into the new religion known as Atheisism.
Watch me in London attempt to preach the gospel, I’m new to open air preaching, it is reallly a challenge to keep peoples attention and delivery the good news. In this atempt I do get shut down before I could really make the point I wanted to about the fear of God, but prayfully God will speak to the hearts of those who heard.