IS THE WORLD BECOMING CHRISTIAN? - Lawson C Briggs - September 1978

Lawson C Briggs

Take the United States, for example. More Americans attend church in an average week than attend all professional baseball, basketball, and football games combined in the average year. All athletic events of all kinds draw less than 1/ 15th as many people in a week as attend church. How did it come to be that way? Most people alive today are accustomed to a world full of professing Christians, a world in which Christian thought and Christian values have had or are having a major influence on the civilization of planet Earth, a world scarcely a corner of which has not heard to some degree or another of Christ and a religion which goes by His name. Today messengers and missionaries march or have marched through jungles and swamps, through forests and plains, over continents and islands, in the Arctic, South America, darkest Africa, Southeast Asia, the islands of the Pacific, the glacier-studded mountains of equatorial New Guinea. But it hasn't always been that way. Less than nineteen hundred and sixty years ago, not one single Christian walked the earth. Then-suddenly-something new was introduced to the world. A preexisting Divine Being was born as a man, as Jesus of Nazareth. He taught, suffered, died, was buried and resurrected. He returned to heaven - and sent back the Holy Spirit of God to earth to dwell in and empower His handful of weak and bewildered disciples! That was to be the beginning of His Church. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library