According to a January 2 Wall Street Journal report entitled “Europe’s Empty Churches Go on Sale,” the secularization of England and Europe continues. “The Church of England closes some 20 churches a year, while approximately 200 Danish churches have been deemed nonviable, and the Catholic Church in Germany has shut down about 515 churches in the past ten years. In the Netherlands the situation is grimmer still, and Catholic leaders estimate that two-thirds of their 1,600 churches will be out of commission in a decade, with 700 of Holland’s Protestant churches expected to close within four years” (“Europe Sells Off Churches,” Breitbart, Jan. 5, 2015). Of course, Europe’s Christianity has long been unsound, being composed largely of apostate Roman Catholicism and dead Protestantism. England’s Christian history is somewhat better, with its more significant tradition of Baptist, Methodist, Brethren, and other “non-conformist” churches that were separate from the state church. But England is nearly equal to Europe today in the apostasy of its churches. This is a fulfillment of Bible prophecies such as 2 Timothy 4:3-4. Replacing the Catholic and Protestant forms of “Christianity” is a New Age spirituality. “Christians” and non-Christians are uniting by means of joint social-justice endeavors and shared consensus that the “kingdom of God” must be built by human hands. The hour is very late. (Friday Church News Notes, January 9, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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