god's vision to finish the task
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How can we fulfill God's vision to finish the task?TRANSCRIPT
How are we doing
In reaching the world for Christ?
2010 Population of the world: 6.85 billions
AFRICA 1.033 billion 14.95% AMERICAS 0.939 billion 13.61% ASIA 4.166 billion 60.31% EUROPE 0.732 billion 10.61% OCEANIA 0.035 billion 0.52%
Under 15 years old 1.8 billion 26.5%
Under 27 years old 3.4 billion 50%
54% of the Indian population is below 25 years old.
85% of the youth live in poverty
13 live on the street, without home or parents (100 million street children)
50% suffer malnutrition
Non-literates & 1.5 billion 22%
Functional illiterate 3.billion 45%
Total 67% of the world population can’t, won’t, and don’t read.
Over 51% of global population is now in urban.
Rural dwellers 3.3 5billion 49%
Urban dwellers 3.4 5billion 51%
Over 40% of global population will move to other countries.
80% of the world population will move to cities.
New reality! We are young, poor, urbanites, illiterate, moving, and growing fast.
2008 2025 Christians 2,231,421,000
2,670,312,000 Muslims 1,412,301,000 1,861,186,000 Hindus 887,991,000
1,065,370,000 Buddhists 391,122,000 456,705,000
Non-Christians 4,460,063,000 5,234,922,000
Majority Religion
Christian Muslim Hindu Buddhist Non-religious
There are too many lost people.
227 million
20 million
427 million
350 million
300 million
123 million
410 million
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Pacific
Europe
North America
Latin America
Asia
Africa
World Evangelicals – Continent by Continent
Explosion of the non-western Church Explosion of the non-western Church
• True Christianity has grown by more than 300 million believers in the past ten years.
• About 10 million of these new Christians are from North America and Europe
• The rest – 290 million – are from countries like Nigeria, Brazil, India and China.
The Global South: The new faces of Evangelical Christianity
2008 2025 Christians 33.3% 33.8% Church members 2,113,199,000 2,549,094,000 Africa 423,675,000 627,557,000 Asia 355,008,000 474,745,000 Europe 556,359,000 537,144,000 Latin America 530,187,000 634,354,000 Northern America 220,374,000 245,693,000 Oceania 22,788,000 26,595,000
Christian organization 2008 2025 Churches 3,684,000 5,000,000 Workers 11,866,000 14,000,000 Missionaries 458,000 550,000 Men 6,994,000 8,000,000 Women 4,872,000 6,000,000 Denominations 39,000 55,000 Foreign-mission sending agencies 4,550 6,000 Service agencies 27,000 36,000
3%
Explosion of the non-western missionariesExplosion of the non-western missionaries
Estimated missionaries sent by various countries over the next 15-20 years.
Chinese: 50,000 Missionaries
10/40 Window
Koreans: 30,000 Missionaries
Filipinos: 100,000 Contract labor tentmakers
Nigerians: 15,000 missionariesLatin Americans:
10,000 missionaries
The World’s Mission Force
West
Non West
70%?
Christian ministry 2009 2025 Bible translation 4660 6900 Total monthly listeners/viewers 2,580,000,000
3,800,000,000 Scripture Distribution 6,509,081,000
8,460,000,000 Unevangelized population 1,871,208,000
2,034,713,000
Enough evangelism, but there are too many peoples never heard the gospel even once.
Still there will be 2 billion people never heard the gospel no matter what if we continue the same way of preaching the gospel.
#of the people groups Total # of population
Whole world 11,566 6,691,484,000
Unreached people 6,456 3,931,745,839
Unengaged unreached people 3,337
465,352,803
Population %
Have heard the Gospel in some form
~ 4.7 billion 70%
Virtually no exposure to the Gospel
~ 2.0 billion 30%
Unevangelized peopleUnevangelized people
Unreached Population(in millions)
Majority of the Unreached World
1 India 344,000,000
2 China 262,000,000
3 Pakistan 144,000,000
4 Indonesia 68,600,000
5 Iran 48,700,000
6 Thailand 34,100,000
7 Algeria 32,900,000
8 Morocco 30,900,000
9 Bangladesh 30,000,000
10 Afghanistan 26,000,000
World Population Foreign Missionaries
Missionary presence
95% of Christian workers focus on their own people
Of the 5% who become missionaries 80-90% focus on people groups which are majority Christian
Only 2.5 – 4% of missionaries are focused on the 25 - 28% of the world who are unreached
Only few young missionaries for the half of the young world population
Not many Asian young leaders in missions
Accessibility – do all people in the world have access to the gospel?
Possibility - Can we reach them all if we continue the same way of doing mission?
Transformability - Why not change the way of doing mission?
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
Albert Einstein
The youth must lead the half of the world youth population to Christ.
The youth must make disciples of other nationals in their school who are unreached.
The youth must go and make disciples of the unreached peoples around the world.
The youth must take leadership to transform the world for Christ.
Dare to finish the task by taking the gospel to 2 billion people, making disciples of 3000 unengaged
unreached peoples. Let’s adopt one Unengaged unreached people group
as my people! Would you give your two weeks to plant one church
among the unreached in 2010? Would you give two years of your golden life to plant
churches among the unreached?
Simply somebody just obey and go to the unreached peoples and tell the Story of Jesus Christ!
Jesus glorified God by completing the task through His life and death(John17).
Let’s glorify God by finishing the task of reaching all the unreached peoples.
If it is not worthy of dying for, it is not worthy of living for.
Contact: Global Assistance Partner
Rev. Kang Hee Ahn