The Preparation Period for the Gospel

When Jesus comes, when the Apostles start to scatter, by this time there's really not much Judaism left. The largest Jewish settlement outside of the Holy Land itself was in what today is Saudi Arabia. Totally secularized, completely abandoned any sense of the faith. That's the vacuum into which the gospel comes. But at the same time, it's also the period that the world starts to have its first super highways. It's why churches in Saudi Arabia are exploding with growth. God uses adversity and grows it. We think in America that things are just absolutely awful. And you know why they're awful? Because we've become comfortable and we've become negligent.