Is the church getting the job done?
Is the church getting the job done? You judge.FROM: “WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT THE U.S.A.” From: "Alice & Eddie Smith - U.S. PRAYER CENTER" <usprayercenter@cs.com>
-The U.S. is the third largest unchurched nation in
-North America is the only continent where Christianity isn't growing.
-Seven out of 10 people in North America do not know Christ.
-The United States is now the 13th largest receptor of Christian missionaries in the world.
-More than 70% of all churches in the U.S. are plateaued or declining.
-Half of all churches last year did not add one new member through conversion growth.
-While the U.S. population grew by 11.4% over the last 10 years, church growth declined by 9.5%.
-The U.S. Census Bureau projects that 47% of the U.S. population will be non Anglo-American by 2050.
-4.1 million Muslims live in the U.S.
-2.5 million Buddhists live in the U.S.
-About a quarter million Sikhs live in America, with 100,000 living on the east coast. Other areas with high numbers of Sikhs are Chicago, Detroit, and Austin, Texas.
(Source: North American Mission Board Planting Team and Barna Update, 2003)
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- Rick
posted by Rev. Rick Carder '87 / ' 03 @ 6:21 PM
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