Dear Editor,
I read with interest Josh Moody’s view that the West is at a tipping point. Sadly, I believe the West has long passed that point. For years in the US, Christians have aligned themselves with the Republican Party rather than the Democrats, presumably because they felt there was more hope in politics than in God. In Britain, the Christian Institute has successfully garnered funding at a time when missions struggle to get sufficient for their needs. This is not to cast aspersions on the Institute, which does a fine job, but it does make me think that British Christians are more interested in preserving their disappearing public presence and protection than in promoting the gospel of Christ, which is the only hope for turning the tables, as it always was. Europe has lost its hold on the Biblical truths rescued by the reformers, and we have to look to places where the church is persecuted to see growth!
War in Ukraine has brought many refugees to consider their need of certainty and hope for the future, but those who have stayed to minister to these needs face colossal pressures and a lack of resources. Christians in the Middle East have been divided forcefully once more.
We Christians are drawn to alleviate physical needs far more readily than spiritual ones. We want all wars to stop so that we can bury our heads in the sand. I suggest that that is because we have lost sight of spiritual realities and we are now reaping what we have sown. Pessimistic? Perhaps! Realistic? Perhaps! What is beyond doubt is that God can turn things about very quickly indeed. But why should He? What if He is shaking us up to make us turn back to Him?
Yours sincerely,
Andy Woods
Gloucester
