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With no planning permission to convert them, the empty churches become derelict and home to dossers and squatters before falling down into roofless ruins; in the meantime bankrupting the church organisations which own them and preventing the money which might have been realised from their sale and conversion from being utilised in more fertile fields of mission. It is part of our job as Christians to represent our Master well and not to bring His name into disrepute. I can think of very few ways in which to bring His name into disrepute better than by leaving a trail of roofless ruins across this land.
What an attractive idea to have our towns, cities and villages full of roofless ruins because, as Revelation clearly predicts, of the great apostasy (falling away) of the people of this world from Christianity.
State sponsored Christian education merely innoculates people against the true Word of God and, as has been shown by the current state of affairs, closes people's ears and hearts to the only message that will lead to eternal salvation. The greatest apostasy is evident in the generation that had Christianity as the ONLY religion taught to them at school.
I too believe that the followers of Christ, whom He recognises, will be the only ones standing at the end of this age, but I'd rather not see our villages, towns and cities full of church ruins in the meantime.
On an early Church historical point, as Alexander raises the subject, many early church accounts put Simon the Zealot (Disciple and Apostle) in England not very long after the successful Roman invasion of the country (just 14 or 15 years after the Resurrection) and there is historical and archaelogical evidence of early Christian Churches (2nd Century) at several sites in the North and West of England.
