What On Earth Is God Doing?

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What On Earth Is God Doing? Statistics used by Pastor Mark Teyler

The United States has only 6% of the total Christian population, but 50% of the total Christian wealth. -HRF Imagine if the 7.3 billion people were a single global village of just 100 people--what would that look like? Out of 100 people: 60 would be Asian 15 would be African 11 would be European 8 would be Latin American 5 would be American or Canadian 1 would be from the South Pacific 82 would be non-white; 18 white 33 would be Christian; 67 would be non-Christian -Global Education Toolbox Christianity is by far the world’s largest religious group--1/3 of the world’s population or 2.3 billion people! -Joshua Project World population per believer: In A.D. 100 only 1 in every 360 people was a believer. Today, 1 in every 7.3 people is a believer. -Joshua Project In the last 100 years the number of Christians has quadrupled. -Pew Research Center It’s estimated that 82,000 people become Christians every day! -World Christian Encyclopedia In China, it’s estimated the church is growing at 10,000 new believers every day. -World Evangelization Research Center More Muslims have become Christians in the last 15 years than in the previous 15 centuries combined. -World Evangelization Research Center In India, 15,000 new believers are baptized every month. -Traveling Team In Africa in the year 1900 there were fewer than 9 million Christians; today there are over 541 million. In the last 15 years alone, the church in Africa has seen a 51% increase. -Traveling Team

Africa is the first continent in the world to become the majority Christian (over 50%) in a single century. -Traveling Team In Nepal, 100,000 Hindus have come to Christ in the last two decades. -Traveling Team 3,500 new churches are opening worldwide every week. -Traveling Team “We are living in the time of the greatest ingathering of people into the kingdom of God that the world has ever seen.” -Patrick Johnstone With over 7.3 billion people in the world, 5 billion are not yet Christians. -Joshua Project Missiologists have identified 16,528 different people groups in our world today-counting every group once for each country in which they reside. -Joshua Project 9,841 of those people groups have a gospel witness in them. -Joshua Project 6,687 are unreached people groups, still yet to hear about Jesus. -Joshua Project 3 billion people (1/3 of the world) have no known visible witness for Christ. They are never going to hear about Christ unless someone goes to their culture to tell them. -Joshua Project 70,000 people in the unreached world die everyday without Jesus. -Baxter In Afghanistan the average inhabitant will hear about Jesus once every 30.5 years. -About Missions In India there are 500,000 villages that have never heard the name Jesus. -Yohannan The majority of the unreached people live in an area called the 10/40 Window. A rectangular section of the globe located between 10 and 40 degrees North of the equator that roughly encompasses North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The 10/40 Window is the darkest and least Christian area in the world. It’s home to… • 4.5 billion people. • 86% of the world’s unreached live in this area. • 82% of the poorest of the world’s poor. • The main centers of Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism.

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The least resourced investment by global followers of Jesus 85% of these countries do not allow western missionaries to come and freely share the Gospel and establish churches -Joshua Project

What is the largest unreached people group in the world? The Shaikh of Bangladesh with over 132 million individuals. -About Missions “Why should anyone hear the gospel twice before everyone has heard it once?” -Oswald Smith For every single unreached people group in the world today (6,687), there are 900 evangelical churches. For every one of these unreached people groups, there are 78,000 evangelical Christians. -Traveling Team The annual income of Evangelical Christians is approximately 7 trillion. -Traveling Team Evangelical Christians could provide all the funds needed to plant a church in each of the 6,687 unreached people groups with only .03% of their income. -Traveling Team “The single greatest hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the Body of Christ.” -KP Yohannan There are 400,000 missionaries serving the world, with 127,000 sent out from the United States. -CSGC American churches spend 95% of their offerings on home-based ministry, 4.5% on American missionary support and less than 1% on indigenous missionary support. -Traveling Team If you earn more than $37,000 per year, you are in the top 4% of wage earners in the world! -Bill Stearns Of the 400,000 missionaries sent out into the world—90% of them serve in already reached countries. -Winter “Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.” -Bob Pierce “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” -Jim Elliot