03/16/2026
What if the Western world isn’t post-Christian?
I was sitting in the Helsinki Airport, bags packed, heart full, and body tired in the good way that comes after two weeks of teaching at ARISE Finland.
I was headed home, but before I left, Mikael reached out. I told him I had a couple of hours before my flight, so he made his way to the airport just to sit and talk.
Mikael is a Finnish church planter, youth director, and ARISE graduate. As we talked, the conversation naturally turned to the challenges of gospel ministry in Finland and across Western Europe. Secularism. Suspicion of institutions. A generation shaped more by algorithms than altars.
At one point, I said something that felt obvious to me: “Finland has a post-Christian culture.”
Then Mikael paused and gently asked a question that stopped me in my tracks. Quoting a friend, he said, “Is the culture post-Christian, or is it pre-revival?”
Sitting there in that airport coffee shop, I felt his question reframe everything for me. A shift in perspective opened a door I hadn’t been looking for.
What if what we often label as decline is actually preparation? What if the absence of inherited faith is making room for authentic encounters? What if spiritual hunger hasn’t disappeared but has gone unnamed? — Angelo Grasso, “Post-Christian or Pre-Revival”
Read Angelo's full devotional here: https://lightbearers.org/blog/post-christian-or-pre-revival/
