On the social realm, Portugal is currently going
through an economical crisis, due to misuse of money through overuse of
credit by most of the families. Naturally, Christians are affected as
well (directly or not) because unemployment has risen.
On the spiritual realm, among believers there is a
midst of religiosity and passiveness towards the general situation of
the country. Real born again believers are still a small minority, as
the Catholic church represents a brutal majority according the charts.
Anyway, the reality is that most of the Portuguese don´t go at all to
any church, neither have personal relationship with Jesus. And the
church is, in practice, quite subtle and closed into itself, as
generations of believers are only used to keep the meetings going on,
and seem not to be much motivated into change.
Nevertheless this situation can turn out to be a blessing, in the way that it may lead to repentance:
- Repentance of covetousness (by using unsustained credit).
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Repentance of religiosity, that believers could be revived again and
non-believers would meet Lord Jesus as a personal Savior and Provider
that He is.
Portuguese are friendly and happy people
overall. I personally pray that they would find deeper and healing
happiness in Jesus.
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