Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Serious Global Shift

Global Christianity has shifted! I have highlighted this before, but the numbers are impressive and overwhelming. God is up to something (he usually is).

A report released this month by the Lausanne Researchers' Network
highlights the profound geographical shift of global Christianity over the
past hundred years. According to the study, over 80 percent of all
Christians in 1900 were from Europe and North America, yet by 2005 it was
under 45 percent. Today, Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans are more
typical representatives of evangelicalism than Americans or Europeans.
People of African descent represent 30.8 percent of all Evangelicals, while
Asian and Latin American make up 15 percent and 13.2, respectively.

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