Why focus on Europe? Why not direct our energies and resources to the parts of the world that are seeing such immense growth?
Europe has historically been, and continues to be, the intellectual educational center of the world. Millions of students flock to Europe each year to drink in the secular and relativistic understandings of European Universities.
Ranald Macaulay, son-in-law to Francis Schaeffer and founder of both the English L’Abri and the Cambridge Summer School of Theology, argues,
“As much as the United States influences the developing world technologically, so much does Europe influence the world intellectually.”
Europe was the greenhouse of the Enlightenment, which has so shaped the world over the last 300 years. Likewise, the postmodernism that is the fashionable style of many intellectuals around the world finds its roots in European thought.
Imagine Europe’s atheistic and agnostic worldview as a virus. If the disease is not treated in Europe, it will, like an intellectual epidemic, fly around the world, infecting the very places which are not experiencing such vital spiritual growth and life.