Sunday Thoughts

It is a blessing to live in a country where we can openly worship the Lord with a great percentage of our American churches preaching the gospel. It is not hard to find a Bible believing, Bible teaching church in any town across the United States. It has become very easy to take this blessing for granted.

Portugal has freedom of religion, too, but in doing research on Portugal we have found that a very large percentage of the people do not actively participate in any church. Less than half of 1% of the population are believers. The country of Portugal, which is a little smaller than the state of Indiana, has about 10 million people. Lisbon, a city of 2.1 million people, and most of these people have never heard that they can have a personal relationship, and a sure hope of salvation, with the God who created them and loves them.

Western Europe has been called "the graveyard of modern missions" and the religion that is practiced is cold and empty. We don't know yet what a Sunday will look like in Portugal, but we do know that our hearts are filled with a hope that we want to share with the people there.