the future?

I’ve just finished writing a manuscript that, among other things, wonders what the next 150 years will look like for Christianity. It seems to me that, like always, there will be good and bad examples of faith in action. But there’s more to come too, I believe. The cocktail of cultural shift, climate change, geopolitical unrest, technological advances and internal conflict within the church itself makes me (and all those people far cleverer than I whom I asked) convinced that this time next century we’ll be looking out on a dramatically different world.

I just saw this list of nations with the worst records of persecution of Christians. It’s from Open Door who, if you’re not already aware, are fueled by the lungs and heart of Brother Andrew.

I once heard him say that it is ‘easier to calm down a radical than to wake up a corpse’. I like that. And I’m thinking that there is probably a far greater density of Christian radical within these ten countries than there is round here.

While writing the book it was the stories of the martyrs that got me. It’s a nice idea, having a to die for kind of faith. But do I really want it?

Filed under: getting over myself