Last week I joined with about 700 others to pray and we spent considerable time praying for France. In fact it seemed evident that for many of the leaders there they began to feel a greater burden for France and a greater ownership of the need for mission to that nation. I’d be surprised if in the next few years I didn’t hear of leaders moving there and an increase in the number of church plants there.

So it was a provocation to me to read this the following day about how Christianity is fading in France. This line struck a chord,

“I can only think that French Christianity is indeed fading because it is upheld by families whose hearts are not deeply committed to it as part of their heritage.”

What struck me is that the author, who has no personal experience of faith, has never encountered ‘living faith’ but only religion as part of a cultural heritage. A genuine revival of faith is needed in France.