Our soul winning passage from the Word of God today is Revelation 7:9-10 which reads: “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.”

Our soul winning quote today is from John Piper. He said: “Don’t wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him, so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.”

Our soul winning devotional is part 105 of our series titled “What Evangelism Is” from Dave Earley and David Wheeler.

Today, we are looking at Part 2 of Ten Reasons to Plant a Church

2. North America Is Rapidly Becoming a Post-Christian Nation

A couple of years ago, my youngest son came home from his first day of high school in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. I asked him who was at his lunch table. “It was interesting, Dad,” he said. “There was a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Mormon, a Catholic, a Jew, a Christian friend, and some kids that don’t consider themselves anything.” Thirty years ago he might have answered, “A Methodist, a Presbyterian, a Catholic, a Baptist, and a kid whose dad works on Sundays.” Times have certainly changed, even in the Midwest. For Americans my age and even somewhat younger, the America we grew up in is not the America in which we now live.

Any student of the American culture knows that, in spite of vast amounts of time, energy, and money spent to influence the political process, Christian values are quickly disappearing from our culture. Honesty, morality, and integrity are concepts that have been either redefined or completely discounted. And as our culture has become increasingly less welcoming to the Judeo-Christian principles that are the bedrock of our nation, many in our nation have simultaneously become more hostile to evangelical Christianity. One of the key reasons for this is that we have proportionately less evangelical Christians in our culture.

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