I believe in Hillsong, Soul Survivor and Teen Street Everlasting

I believe in Hillsong, Soul Survivor and Teen Street Everlasting.
I believe in theological study, daily devotions and scripture memory
I believe in youth work, childrens work and all other works except those supposed to lead to salvation.
I believe in Christian books, worship downloads and assorted merchandise.
I believe in the holy catholic church, the Anglicans, Lutherans, Pentecostals and the little group that meet around the corner.
I believe in Toronto, the place, the experience and the church stream.
I also believe the conservatives are right.
I believe in it all, all of it, the whole lot.

So why then aren't we, Europeans, seeing more fruit both in our lives and through our lives. We've never been so well equipped, well educated, conferenced up, out and about. So why aren't we a mighty army confidently and passionately sweeping this continent for Christ, like Paul and the first missionaries did just under two thousand years ago. Don't give me the old line about how hard it is today. Apart from Belarus, there are no mad men dictators setting us on fire to light up their garden parties like Nero did to the early church. Perhaps that's the problem!

Or maybe Paul himself gives us the answer in his short note to Philemon. He tells us of his prayer: that you may be active in sharing your faith so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ. v6. So there it is: share your faith and you will get it. You will get it in such an amazing way that you'll want to share it all the more, and then of course you'll understand it all the better and so on and on. It worked for Paul around the Balkans and it worked for Wesley in the UK hundred years later. It can work for us too, and make sense of all the great activities, resources and movements we have available across our continent. The only problem is that most of us Europeans don't share our faith, and much of the time aren't particularly encouraged to. As long as that is the case, all the wonderful things we do, go to, belong to and believe in will remain at best untested ideas and at worst hype..Its enough to make me write a book, produce a podcast, hold a conference and print the T shirt. Trouble is then I won't have time to actually do it, and prove it!