The 'median' Christian in the world is not male but female, not white but brown, black, or Asian, 22 years old, in the developing world rather than the first world—and far more Pentecostal than Presbyterian. She has not been to a Passion conference; she has not read CS Lewis...
... or Christianity Today; she has not read your blog, nor mine, and does not go to Starbucks to work on her sermons, and really isn't too worked up over whether the latest lyric from Hillsongs agrees with the Westminster Confession. She's not afraid to suffer either.
Over 215 million believers are persecuted with intimidation, prison, and even death for their faith in Jesus Christ across the world, Open Doors USA lists the top 10 persecutors of Christians: Islamic Extremists, Hindu Nationalists, North Korean & Chinese Government…
... and Drug cartels in Central and South America. She's undeterred by any of this. So are her brothers and mothers and fathers in the Faith as they get on with the mission. As must we. 42% of the world’s population is under 25, half in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia...
...The median age of the global population is 28. And this all simply reminds us that we are called at home and in all the world to go and make disciples, that the Northern and largely white Church has so much to learn from the rest of the global Church, and that we mustn't wait
The Church is not a cold-storage facility for bored Christians in the Bible belt more concerned about the latest controversy in the whack-a-mole world of the Evanjellyfish world. Let's get on with it. Let's make disciples. Let's plant new churches. Let's renew others. Let's go!
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