ut while Europe was still a long way off the Father saw it and was filled with compassion. He ran to the people of Europe and threw his arms around them and kissed them … kill the fattened calf, let’s celebrate for this son of mine was dead but is alive; he was lost but is now found again. interpretation of Luke 15. Because Europe is not a pre Christian paganism but a paganism born out of the rejection of Christianity, it is far tougher and more resistant to the gospel than the pre Christian paganisms …. Here without possibility of question is the most challenging missionary frontier of our time. Bishop Lesslie Newbigin in "Can the West Be Converted?"