Well, as promised here are some further thoughts on the book "America Alone" by Mark Steyn.
1) D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones has a book entitled "From Fear to Faith: Studies in the Book of Habakkuk" that works as an excellent companion to this book. Just change the word communism to Islam.
2) Around the turn of the LAST millennium, the general feeling in Europe was that they were in the end times since they had Muslims to the south, Normans to the north (vikings), and Mongols to the east. They managed to muddle themselves out of that problem too.
3) Basicly there has been someone who is willing to proclaim the end of the western world since the beginning of the western world. (I'm sure the barbarians sacking Rome seemed like a great setback for the civilization, yet here we are)
4) While certain Christian youths might return from, say, China, and pray for persecution of the church in America (I don't remember where I read this, sorry) That would not make the larger church more faithful, nor would it allow the faithfull to spread the true gospel as easily as we can now. It would be better to pray that we may take full advantage of the freedom that we have.
5) Any church leader who teaches that there are many paths to God (I'm looking at you, the Anglican Church) will find it much more difficult to do so when one of these paths are actively seeking to collect your head. Frighteningly, I'm not sure if this would turn out to be true
6) Finally, Christ has built his Church, and the gates of Hell cannot stand against it.
-nik.
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