Posted on 10/16/2014 6:48:59 AM PDT by millegan
The global face of Christianity has changed dramatically in the last one hundred years. So much so, that everything that seemed so permanent about “the way the world was” no longer holds.
Information courtesy of PewForum, here’s where things stand:
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That was fascinating!
Imagine missionaries from third world Nigeria evangelizing the first world.
I like it.
Christian stats for the middle east may be out of date, however. They are being persecuted, tortured, enslaved, driven out, overtaxed or forced to renounce in all the isis countries — that our unrepresentative unconstitutional government is funding and arming, btw.
In my experience the most fertile soil for evangelization is China. I have never seen the gospel so voraciously received than among my Chinese friends.
The United Methodist Church’s senior leadership of bishops was affronted at the last international conference (General? Jurisdictional?) by the fact that the African attendees were vocal, Bible-based, unafraid and evangelical. Several of the senior (liberal) leaders went so far as to say the African delegates shouldn’t get as big a say as non-Africans. Ashamed of my UMC leadership, but stoked at Maxie Dunnam, Billy Abraham, Rusty Freeman, Ryan Barnett and the others in the renewal/Good News movement for moving intentionally to reclaim the Wesleyan (read “biblical”) traditions of the Methodist Church. We started going south when we joined with the United Brethren in the ‘60s and people are finally realizing it.
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