Transcript Kingdom_Thinking_Completing_The_Task

Kingdom Thinking
Completing The Task
World Population: 7 Billion
33% include Christians of all kinds.
40% are reached (or evangelized) non-Christians.
27% are unreached (i.e.unevangelized) nonChristians.
Foreign Missionaries
429,000 Missionaries from all branches of
Christendom (Only between 2 and 3% of those
missionaries work among unreached peoples.)
Missionary presence
Annual Global Church Finance in US
Dollars
15,500 Billion - Total Annual Income
300 Billion - Giving to Christian Causes
(1.8% of total income of 15,500 Billion)
17 Billion - To Foreign Missions (5.7% of
300 Billion or 0.11% of 15,500 Billion)
Annual Global Church Finance in US
Dollars
Where Foreign Mission Funds are Spent
~87% goes for work among those already
Christian (14.8 Billion).
~12% for work among already Evangelized but
Non-Christian (2.04 Billion).
~1% for work among still Unevangelized and
Unreached people groups (0.17 Billion)
Finances
Worldwide, believers give $17 billion on average to
missions
5.5% of all giving to Christian causes, or about
$2,125 a year per church.
To make up an additional $600 million needed
would require only $80 more per year from each
church!
Only 80 cents more a year per person! If the U.S.
144 million born again adults, the cost would be
only an extra $4.16 each.
Average Ministry Cost in U.S. Dollars for
Each Convert's Baptism
Mozambique 1400 (least)
Ethiopia 2700 (2nd)
Nepal 3700 (5th)
Cambodia 4300 (8th)
Average Ministry Cost in U.S. Dollars for
Each Convert's Baptism
Africa $14,000
Asia $61,000
Latin America $145,000
Oceania $634,000
Europe $993,000
USA $1,500,000
Unreached People Groups
Buddhist Others 600
1000
Tribal
2000
Muslim
4100
Hindu
2700
Muslim
Hindu
Tribal
Buddhist
All Others
Year
AD
Total
World
Active
Population Believer
(millions)
(millions)
World
Christian
population Unreached congregations
per
people
per unreached
believer
groups
people group
100
180
0.5 360 to 1
60000 1 to 12
1000
270
1 270 to 1
50000 1 to 5
1500
425
5 85 to 1
44000 1.1 to 1
1900
1620
78 21 to 1
40000 20 to 1
1970
3700
277 13 to 1
18000 150 to 1
2010
6700
800 7.3 to 1
8000 1000 to 1
Majority Religion
Christian
Islam
Hindu
Buddhist
Non-religious
The World’s Christians
The
World’s
Muslims
Muslim dot layer map
The World’s Buddhists
The World’s Hindus
CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONARIES
WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?
3%
How many Christians to send 1 missionary?*
1 Mongolia
2 Lebanon
3 Singapore
222
295
400
4
5
6
7
Niger
Nepal
Sri Lanka
Spain
451
458
479
512
8 Faeroe Is
9 Mali
10 Thailand
533
608
633
*includes only Protestant, Anglican and Independent
Personnel
There are 800 million Great Commission
Christians in the world.
Assuming an average church size of 100 persons,
we only need one new missionary from every 250
churches in order to send out the additional 32,000
that are needed!
Prayer
Prayer is something that everyone can do.
Using the “hour a day” method, a church of about
50 praying members could readily supply the
prayer support for an entire team of four
missionaries if they only prayed 5 minutes a day.
What’s It Going To Take?
Priorities
Mobilizing
Sacrifice
Partnership
Prayer
Group Questions & Prayer
Taking our temperature:
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How are our churches doing?
How are we leading by example?
What can we do financially?
How can we send more personnel?
What strategies of prayer can we develop?