Welcome back to a new week on the Aspastor John podcast with John Piper.

Listener Brittney writes in to ask this, Dear Pastor John, I currently live in Hungary

and I'm experiencing firsthand the current refugee crisis.

There has been so much talk and debating among Christians here about how we are to view

the refugees and how we are to view this situation in light of the end times.

Someone seems to think that this crisis is the end to Christian freedom in Europe because

of the influx of Muslims and a sign of the end times.

Pastor John, do you see this situation as a start to the beginning of persecution for Christians

in Europe?

People think that because there will be many more Muslims that Europe will become a Muslim

continent.

What is your opinion on this?

I am reading at the moment Philip Jenkins book, The Next Christendom.

It's about the massive changes, especially in the last hundred years, as the preponderance

of Christians has moved from the old established churches in the West, including Europe and

the United States, to the global south of Asia, Africa, Latin America.

And part of this change is owing to the increased secularization of Europe and America.

Part of it is owing to the stunning vitality and spread of Christianity in the global south.

Part of it is owing to the drastic drop in birth rates in modern secular states compared

to the comparatively huge population growth in the global south.

And more relevantly here, part of it is owing to immigration as millions of people move

around, move from north to south or global south into Europe and America to form problems

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