» Czech challenge

I was in Prague last week.

We’re ran three days training on how to recruit and select church planters for five teams from around Europe.

Prague is a beautiful city. Took this photo of a church converted into a tourist hotel. They kindly left Christ crucified out the front. Most of the church buildings in this city are museum pieces.

There are over 10 million Czechs. They are among the least religious people in Europe. According to John Conway, 70% of Czechs profess no religion at all. 40% profess atheism.

See: The present situation in the Czech Republic

Evangelical churches (Baptist, Moravians, Brethren, Pentecostal) are at .5% of the population. That’s one half of one percent.

A church planter I met with told me there were only 280 evangelical churches in the nation. The former state “Hussite” church is theological liberal and is in serious decline.

This a tragedy in the nation that gave us the great reformer and martyr Jan Hus and the Moravian missionary movement.

The motto that inspired the Moravian missionary movement?

“That the Lamb that was slain, would receive the reward of His sufferings.”

That motto led them to the four corners of the world.

Their example inspired William Carey and John Wesley and changed the course of history.

What is to be done now that the Czechs, and much of Europe, have become a mission field?