Which is nice and all.
But it's not what Christ told us to do...a small problem.
Kyrie Eleison. Irhamna ya Rrab. Miserere nobis. Have mercy, O Lord.
Read it and weap, then repent and fast and ask God how you can be part of the church's mission to the unreached:
Despite Christ’s command to evangelize, 67% of all humans from AD 30 to the present day have never even heard His name.
• 648 million Christians today (called Great Commission Christians) are active in Christ’s world mission; 1,352 million Christians seem to ignore this mission.
• Non-Christian countries have been found to have 227 million Bibles in place in their midst, (more than needed to serve all Christians), but they are poorly distributed.
• 124 million new souls begin life on Earth each year, but Christianity’s 4,000+ foreign mission agencies baptize only 4 million new persons a year.
• 91% of all Christian outreach/evangelism efforts are expended in World C locations, where the Gospel is already rooted and the church is thriving.
• 818 different un-evangelized, ethno-linguistic peoples have never been targeted by any Christian agency to date.
• 40% of the church’s entire global mission resources are being deployed to just 10 overly-saturated countries already possessing strong citizen-run home ministries.
• 98.7% of people have access to scripture in 6,700 languages leaving 78 million in 6,800 languages with no access at all.
• Only 1 out of every 4 missionaries is working in a pioneer ministry among non-Christian peoples of the major religious blocs.
• Of foreign mission giving, 87% goes toward work among those already Christian, 12% goes for work among already evangelized non-Christians, and 1% goes for work among people groups in the un-evangelized or unreached category.
• Out of 648 million Great Commission Christians, 70% have never been told about World A’s 1.6 billion un-evangelized individuals.
• Every place on Earth can reasonably be targeted with at least 3 of the 45 varieties of effective evangelism.
Read it all at Shawblog.
