A Generation in Need of the Gospel!

This article from the BBC is an interesting look at the up and coming generations in England. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/school_report/news_day_2011/9434169.stm

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In the section on religion keep in mind the fact that just because about half of the children say they believe in a God does not mean that they have saving faith. Every person in their heart knows that there is a God whether they admit it or not. People may believe intellectually on some level that there is a God and yet be serving the idols of their hearts, even children. A case in point is that the article also reveals that earning lots of money and home ownership are the top aspirations these children. Sadly, when we combine this with church attendance of 7% to 2% the picture seems to be more one of a generation being train to be good idolatrous deists rather than children of Christ. The stark reality is that many of these children seem to be just as far from Christ as many Muslims, Hindu people, and atheists!  PLEASE keep praying for the people of England and the younger generation in particular that God's name might ring again in England from shore to shore!!

"Jesus shall reign where’er the sun

Does his successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore,
Till moons shall wax and wane no more." - Isaac Watts 

(Isaac Watts was a famous English hymn writer of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The above is from his hymn "Jesus Shall Reign") 

Trip to Redeemer Lynchburg

      Yesterday I visited Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Lynchburg, Virginia a sister church in the same Presbytery as my home church and was able to share about what God is calling me to do in England next year at their second and third service.
      I went honestly a little skeptical about the response I would get, but God in His great grace decided to surprise me. I was received very warmly both by the pastor whom I know a little and by the church in general. I had set up a little display table and I got to visit and talk with a number of people (maybe including some of you) a little more about the need for revival in England what God is doing there through the planting of solid Christ centered churches.
      To those of you who I met yesterday, I just want to say how excited I was to meet and talk with you and to let you know how much of an answer to prayer the welcome you gave me was. I've said it before, but I'll say it again this whole support raising process has been and continues to be a process of me learning more and more to live by faith. I was telling a friend last night that I don't think I have ever had to trust God for anything as much as I am having to trust him now to raise this money. The great thing is though is because of that i am also getting to see God at work more and more!

      Thank you all again for your support and prayer! To God be the glory!!