Jesus never said worship me, He said follow me… we need worship to keep us properly aligned just as we need prayer to keep us in a place of intimacy, dependency, and thankgiving, but we have to remember that we are in a race for the world, and other religions have figured this out.
As the famous Arnold Toynbee put it, “Civilizations die from suicide, not murder”.
There is a war over Europe right now, a war between Christianity and Muslim and most of Europe’s very existence! The Muslims get it.
What the Islamists have figured out is that they can never win on the battlefield, but they figure there’s an excellent chance they can drag things out until western civilization collapses in on itself and Islam inherits by default. Right now more Muslims attend religious services each week then Christians, Islam is the fastest growing religion in the West.
Replacement fertility rate, the number you need for merely a stable population, is 2.1
babies per women. Some countries are well above that: the global fertility leader Somalia, is 6.91, Niger, 6.83, Afghanistan 6.78, Yemen 6.75, notice what those nations have in common?
If you scroll down to the bottom of the top 100 breeder and you will eventually find the US, hovering just at replacement rate with 2.07 births per women. Ireland is 1.87, New Zealand 1.79, Australia 1.76, But Canada 1.5, well below replacement rate;
Germany and Austria are at 1.3, the brink of the death spiral; Russia and Italy are at 1.2, (More abortions in Russia then births last year); Spain 1.1, about half replacement rate. (Halving every generation) by 2050 Italy’s population will have fallen by 22%, Bulgaria by 36%, Estonia’s by 52%.
A society that has no children, has know future. My kids, the next generation, are “Arrows” that are to be shot out around the world. We must train them, teach them they are in a war that, WE ACTUALLY GET TO WIN, and send them to the “least of these”.
You can die behind a cubical in an office somewhere, in the streets of America, or in the nations… remember, as Christians we are judged for what what we did with our call, why did God make you?
