From 12 Christians to billions of Christians in only 100 generations.
I'll take that as "progress" any day.
A long view is history is required of those who wish to understand history, don't you think?
The alternative is to give up the fight for this culture, for our communities and our future on this earth even though God has told us explicitly that the purpose of our lives is to bring glory to His name.
He told us to put on the breastplate of righteousness and the whole armor of God for a reason - to withstand the evil day and to remain standing.
Not to flee. Not to fall. To stand.
Estimates of the worlds population in Jesus day was about between 800,000 - 1.4 million
Can we assume that 1/3 of that population had been converted by the time all of the Apostles had died? It wouldn’t be such a stretch to believe that that many had converted by then or within a short period of time.
Estimates of the world’s population today 6,894,167,298
Many sources mention 2.1 billion who call themselves Christians in the world (about one third of the total population of the planet), but estimating numbers is fraught with difficulties. What is included among the definition of 'Christian' is not agreed upon by many of the groups involved. You know as well as I do the problems with that number.
My guess is that is not the progress you would like to assume.
>> He told us to put on the breastplate of righteousness and the whole armor of God for a reason - to withstand the evil day and to remain standing.<<
If Jesus is truly the total ruler of this world why would we need to “withstand the evil”? Especially if, as the Dominionists and Preterists believe, Satan has already been chained and has no influence today.