What a difference it would make if Bible believing churches everywhere responded to these calls! The world would be subdued, and we wouldn’t be losing ground all the time. Cities would be restored, that is to say, the voice of our witness would be heard once again. It is amazing the difference that is seen today in some respects. We have got the young people today, the under twenty-fives, reportedly more open to spiritual things than we have seen for generations. The polls are showing that the under twenty-fives, or even up to thirty-year-olds, and some polls are saying that as many as forty percent of youngsters, don't buy the theory of evolution, and the atheists are going crazy about this. They cannot understand it. ‘What has gone wrong’, they say, ‘with the new generation? Things are out of control.’ After all, atheism controls the universities and their message, controls the schools and the education system. Creationism isn't even allowed to be mentioned, and yet you have got this kind of phenomenon: huge percentages of youngsters saying there must be some sort of God, some other explanation other than the rational explanation for origins and life and the world. What a time for churches to be waking up! Surely, it is of the Lord; it is of the Spirit of God. So all the more strenuously we need to try to persuade people of these things, and urge churches to return to the old ways, and then we will have the breath of the Spirit in the churches and people saved in much larger numbers. It applies to any individual church; it applies to the churches at large.
We have believers, and we have churches, and some are seeing the blessing of God, but most only seeing a little blessing from God, a conversion very rarely, perhaps once every even three or four years, and that will come from the family of a believer and hardly ever from an outsider. Churches are shrinking and causes are getting weaker. But I have met the pastor of that church – and this can be said of many cases – and they are admirable people, and earnest people, and feelingful people. What’s the matter? What’s going wrong? Well, do we preach the gospel regularly? Do we believe in evangelistic sermons? Why don't they upend that combined Prayer Meeting/Bible Study they have one night of the week, and have a meeting dedicated to prayer and another meeting for Bible Study? Why don't they scrap all the contemporary worship which is letting the world into the church and which the Lord hates? Why don't we go back to serious reverent worship? Here and there, you get a response, and wherever you do, those churches get an encouragement, because there is no doubt that these are the issues: separation from worldliness, the regular persuasive preaching of the gospel, the praying for souls. All these things are vital, and so often churches won't do it.