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“No Half Gospel”
What is the State of
the Gospel?
the Gospel is just fine!
Where we are now?
A Global Faith
Majority Religions
Christian
Islam
Hindu
Buddhist
Non-religious
Annual Growth Rate of World Religions
Evangelical
Muslim
Traditional ethnic
Hindu
Christian
World
Buddhist
non-Religious
0.00%
1.00%
2.00%
3.00%
4.00%
5.00%
Where we are now
The Western Church
World Christianity – Continent by Continent
100%
Pacific
80%
North America
60%
Europe
Latin America
40%
Asia
20%
0%
1900
Africa
1920
1940
1960
1980
2000
2010
WHAT PERCENT OF
CHRISTIANS ARE
LATIN AMERICA
EVANGELICAL
IN FAITH?
PACIFIC
EUROPE
AFRICA
NORTH AMERICA
ASIA
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
Where we are now
The Majority World
Church
World Evangelicals – Continent by Continent
100%
Pacific
80%
Europe
60%
North America
Latin America
40%
Asia
20%
Africa
0%
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONARIES
WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?
3%
The World’s Mission Force
West
70%?
Majority
World
How many Christians to send 1 missionary?*
1 Mongolia
2 Lebanon
3 Singapore
222
295
400
4
5
6
7
451
458
479
512
Niger
Nepal
Sri Lanka
Spain
8 Faeroe Is
9 Mali
10 Thailand
533
608
633
*includes only Protestant, Anglican and Independent
The Task Remaining
Geography and Population
Majority Religion
Christian
Islam
Hindu
Buddhist
Non-religious
And this Gospel
of the Kingdom
shall be preached
as a testimony
to all nations
ethne
and then
the end will come
Matthew 24:14
Unreached People Groups
Buddhist Others 600
1000
Tribal
2000
Muslim
4100
Hindu
2700
Muslim
Hindu
Tribal
Buddhist
All Others
Countries with the Most Unreached
Peoples
Country
# Peoples # Unreached
Peoples
India
2332
2082
China
499
406
Pakistan
401
386
Bangladesh
370
336
Nepal
315
292
China
Nepal
Pakistan India
Bangladesh
The Task Remaining
Imbalanced Sending
World Population Foreign Missionaries
Missionary Presence
The Task Remaining
Strategic Issues
Getting The Job Done
Priorities
Mobilizing
Sacrifice
Partnership
Prayer
When man works, man
works;
When man prays,
GOD works.
When man works, man
works;
When man prays,
GOD works.
• Peter Kuzmic is distinguished
professor of mission and European
studies at Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary in Hamilton,
Massachusetts, USA. He is also the
founding president of Evandjeoski
Teoloski Fakultet in Osijek, Croatia
and is widely regarded as the
foremost evangelical scholar in
Eastern Europe.
Kuzmic lamented the prevalence of
“half-gospels” that do not take
seriously the cross or human pain.
These half-gospels, he said, lead to
self-sufficiency, competition,
duplication, and an “emotionallydriven Christianity that has no
transformative effect.”
Addressing the world’s complex
problems requires a whole gospel.
To comprehend the whole gospel we
must first understand, that “the Great
Commission begins with the Great
Foundation.”
This foundation is expressed in the
verses preceding what is typically
thought to be the Great Commission.
Christ’s commandment to disciple the
nations does not begin with “go.”
Rather it is anchored in
Christ’s astonishing
declaration of cosmological
sovereignty. “All authority on
heaven and earth has been
given to me,” Jesus said, as
recorded in the Gospel of
Matthew.
When the Great Foundation, the
Great Commandment and the Great
Commission are held together,
Christians are emboldened to preach
biblical truth in all spheres of life.
We were, we are challenged to be
holistic gospellers!