Project Nehemiah - The Spiritual need

Today Europe is spiritually the darkest continent in the world. In Asia, Africa, and South America there are spiritual revivals taking place. Even in places like India or Pakistan where religions like Hinduism and Islam are predominant people believe that everything in this life has a connection to the spiritual realm. Europe, however, is largely secular with little thought of anything outside of the material world. While materially affluent, most Europeans are spiritually bankrupt.

In Great Britain (the land of Knox, Whitfield, Wesley, Carey, and Spurgeon) there are millions of people who have no idea who Jesus Christ really is and therefore do not know the Gospel. Over the last ten years British church attendance has declined by almost 25 per cent. If this rate of decline continues, the British church will not exist as it was known in the twentieth century.

The population of Britain is approximately 59,000,000. It consists of four kingdoms (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). The capital is London with a population of 11,800,000 people. About 75% of the population consider themselves Church of England with about 11% professing to be Roman Catholic. There are now more active members of the Roman Catholic Church (1,722,000) than the Church of England (1,280,000). If current trends continue, within the next decade there will be more Muslims attending worship in mosques than there are people regularly attending worship in the Church of England. Only about 2% of the population would be considered Evangelical (born again) Christians.

Today in Britain, this Gospel light is growing seriously dim and is in danger of being blown out. It is time for us to realise that Britain is a mission field. We call this “Project Nehemiah”, because when Nehemiah heard the news of the desolation of Jerusalem and of the spiritual poverty of his people, he began to weep and to cry out to God. Today, Christians need to be deeply moved over the spiritual state of Great Britain. Without reserve, British and North American Christians need to take up the challenge of the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20). We need to begin spiritually rebuilding the walls of this great nation!