‘Something has shifted’: Evangelists report ‘shock wave’ as many now actually interested in Bible in ‘tough place to reach people with the gospel’
The United Kingdom long has been on the cutting edge of leftist ideologies: Abortion, LGBT lifestyle choices, socialized medicine, and tolerance for most religious faiths.
Christianity was the exception to that, and in fact people have been arrested for thinking about their opposition to abortion in a zone set up to protect an abortion corporation.
But now, quite suddenly, evangelists who long have presented the story of the Bible to often mocking and heckling crowds are reporting something new.
It was described by Scott McNamara, who founded the King’s Army group that marched near Buckingham Palace recently to proclaim Jesus is Lord over England.
“We heard this shock wave. It was like someone described it like a crack in the spirit. And after that, we did this march outside Buckingham Palace and a couple of other things, and it’s been incredible. Every day we’re getting people enlisted to be part of King’s Army, like 20 to 30, enlist per week, people reaching out from all over England saying, I want to be part of this movement,” McNamara said in an interview with CBN.
The report noted the United Kingdom’s reputation as “a tough place to reach people with the gospel.”
Stephen Johnson, who has been ministering in the streets of London for a decade, told CBN he’s never seen people more willing to hear about the Bible.
“I started an outreach initiative in my home area of London, and the first time we did it, a couple of people just walked into the church afterwards, just wanting to talk. That doesn’t really happen in England. We’ve just seen this kind of thing happen again and again, and something has shifted in people’s hearts,” he said in the interview.
Johnson explained it has been “quite normal” for Christians to be “mocked and ridiculed and heckled.”
But a change is evident.
“Now we’re seeing young people actually come to us for conversations in the street and actually wanting serious conversations. And something has radically changed in people’s hearts,” Johnson told CBN.
Johnson added, “If you can turn up on the streets with a bunch of flyers, stop someone and say, ‘What do you know about Jesus? Or are you interested in spiritual things?’ Just start a conversation. It is not difficult. And for England of all places, that’s a remarkable shift.”
McNamara said a revival is coming.
“When the church wakes up, revival comes, and then there will be another, a great third awakening,” he said.