American Christianity is everywhere!
In driving through the small towns we never see less than 3 Churches and often more than 6 in villages no bigger than Bawley Point. In the South the Baptists are prolific with often up to 4 different Baptist Churches within a town. The Lutherans are also very strong here and all Churches seem to have a conspicuous building with a double sided changeable sign out front.
The shops are similar. At every grocery store we go to (or Chemist or Department Store) there is a book section. The Christian books dominate up to ½ of the books available every time, Bibles too, heaps of them; and they are all astoundingly cheap!
Then there are the street Evangelists. While they are not everywhere, they are certainly present and never too far away. Sometimes they are loud and oblivious to how others are receiving them, other times they are quite subtle, handing out tracts or having quiet conversations with any who pause to listen.
In Washington D.C. we were greatly encouraged when we left a Chemist to find a man in a wheel chair urging another to place his hope in Jesus as there was no other way that a man of flesh could enter the Kingdom of God. It was a glorious testimony to his faith in nothing of this world. We look forward to meeting that man in heaven.
Highway Billboards regularly urge us to repent before the judgement day or exhort us with various Scriptures like John 3:3. It is no bad thing to be kept on our toes.
Michael
In driving through the small towns we never see less than 3 Churches and often more than 6 in villages no bigger than Bawley Point. In the South the Baptists are prolific with often up to 4 different Baptist Churches within a town. The Lutherans are also very strong here and all Churches seem to have a conspicuous building with a double sided changeable sign out front.
The shops are similar. At every grocery store we go to (or Chemist or Department Store) there is a book section. The Christian books dominate up to ½ of the books available every time, Bibles too, heaps of them; and they are all astoundingly cheap!
Then there are the street Evangelists. While they are not everywhere, they are certainly present and never too far away. Sometimes they are loud and oblivious to how others are receiving them, other times they are quite subtle, handing out tracts or having quiet conversations with any who pause to listen.
In Washington D.C. we were greatly encouraged when we left a Chemist to find a man in a wheel chair urging another to place his hope in Jesus as there was no other way that a man of flesh could enter the Kingdom of God. It was a glorious testimony to his faith in nothing of this world. We look forward to meeting that man in heaven.
Highway Billboards regularly urge us to repent before the judgement day or exhort us with various Scriptures like John 3:3. It is no bad thing to be kept on our toes.
Michael
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