Currents Affecting the Church

Thu, Feb. 25 2010
By Chuck Colson
Christian Post Guest Columnist

Perhaps you’ve witnessed it in your own congregation. The past 10 to 15 years have brought dramatic change. Maybe you get regular email updates from a missionary you support. Perhaps the church missions committee uses an internet phone service like Skype to talk face-to-face with a sister church in a remote part of Africa. Or maybe you attend a church where a foreign missionary from overseas has come to help spread the Gospel here in the U.S.

And because of immigration, perhaps your church looks a little more like that picture painted in Revelation, with worshippers from every tribe, tongue, and nation.

We may take changes like this for granted, but they are rippling through the global Church, creating challenges and opportunities like never before. the rest