Mission Expert: Evangelicalism Fastest Growing Religious Mov

[mick75]

Young Christian leaders from around the world listened to a mission expert present about the rapid growth of evangelicalism, especially in the global South, at a Lausanne gathering in Malaysia this week.

Jason Mandryck, co-author of Operation World presents at the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering in Malaysia on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006.
Jason Mandryck – co-author of the mission prayer guide Operation World – presented on the status of the Christian faith around the world Tuesday during the plenary session “State of the Gospel†at the Younger Leaders Gathering.

Nearly 500 young leaders from over 110 countries have gathered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for six days, Sept. 24-30, for Christ-centered leadership development. The Younger Leaders Gathering is a ministry of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization where emerging leaders in churches, ministries and the marketplace ages 25-35 convene to learn new leadership skills, strengthen their spiritual life, and form networks with other young Christian leaders around the world.

Mandryck, as part of the session’s feature presentation, pointed out that although Christianity has barely kept pace with world population growth over the last century, evangelicalism is “far and away the fastest growing major religious movement in the world today,†as reported by Lausanne.

Evangelicalism is growing twice the pace of Islam and three times as fast as the overall world population according to Mandryck.

He indicated that a significant growth of evangelicalism is seen in the global South such as Brazil, China, Bangladesh and Nigeria which have “exploding†Christian populations.

According to Mandryck, the Mongolian church is now the most efficient missions force, sending one missionary for every 222 Christians.

“For the first time in my life, I heard that Mongolia is the most efficient mission sending country,†said Tim Im of South Korea to Lausanne. “For me being Korean I was very embarrassed; I thought we were the most efficient.â€Â

Furthermore, the churches in the global South, from China to Nigeria, are now increasingly aiming to spread the gospel and close the gaps of the 10/40 window.

“When they showed the information on the reached and unreached it really touched me and showed me that we have much more work to do,†said Nnaji Chukwuemeka Bidwell of Nigeria who serves on the Nigeria Fellowship of Evangelical Students.

The session was followed by an extended time of prayer for the expansion of the church worldwide.

“I believe the older generation has slipped away from the idea of mission, but now I believe God is using a younger generation to renew the church’s commitment to mission,â€Â

The Lausanne Movement was formed in 1974 during a meeting of 2,500 Christian leaders for Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Switzerland. Lausanne has helped launch numerous mission initiatives, organizations, and provided more than 30 Lausanne Occasional Papers which help church and mission leaders understand current missiological issues.

 

[carey]

Cool post

thanks I enjoyed the info

God bless,
Carey

 

[MrVersatile48]

Hi Mick!

It is so exciting, having been involved in prayer meetings for global revival for 42 years now, to see such helpful posts from a Syrian Christian: I was so thrilled, during both Fall Sharathon @ http://www.daystar.TV & Missions Week @ http://www.God.TV to hear that many thousands, from every Middle East land, watch & support Christian TV

http://www.christianforums.net/viewtopic.php?t=24248

2001 Operation World - out a week before 9/11 - had already encouraged much prayer about Christian radio & TV & 'Net outreach, & it has so rapidly grown in the past 5 years: I recall how http://www.ucb.co.uk reported many Arab & N African listeners to 549 MW years ago too

& Trans World Radio..FEBA etc

That young leaders' training conference is such a major answer to prayer for many Christians my age

I came on site just now, to post this news about USA population growing faster than US church - from www.crosswalk.com

U.S. Population Growing Faster than the Church, Research Shows

The Christian Post reports that new research based on a database of over 300,000 churches across America indicated that overall the population is growing faster than the church.

The director of the American Church Research Project, Dave Olson, who has been working for years to record actual attendance of churches across the country, said that overall church attendance is virtually unchanged from 15 years ago despite the fact the U.S. population has grown by 52 million people.

According to his research, the northeastern part of the country is the only region where the church is growing faster than the population while no state has seen a net increase in the percentage of church attendance in the last five years

"The evangelical church is becoming suburban, affluent, and educated," Olson said. "The Christian community needs a restoration of its understanding of the message and mission of Jesus. It needs to be less self-righteous, individualistic, and materialistic. It needs to be more biblical, Christo-centric, and holistic."

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I was asking God to remind me of Asian, African, Latin American & Oceania lands where evangelical growth outsrips population growth & your post sure answers that

I'm sure there are still regular updates at http://www.operationworld.org

I know that keen USA Christians will be spurred on to greater commitment by this news & it's very timely for UK National Day of Prayer at Birmingham NEC on Saturday, 11am to 6pm

Are you going, Mick?

Other readers may well feel called to sign up for Christmas/Spring/Summer holiday missions with http://www.ywam.org http://www.om.org http://www.sji.org http://www.nfi.org http://www.nli.org & Jesus Revolution (yahoo)

God bless!

Ian

 

[MrVersatile48]

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& do pray for the many half-term missions starting Friday

24 EU countries had less than 1% of population born-again in 2001 - 11 of 'em had less than 1 Christian per 500 people: less than 0.2%

Any progress reports on the fruits of the past 5 years' missions?

Must go!

Ian