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Matthew 24:14

The Spiritual Condition of the World

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Evangelical Christians

Nominal Christians and Non-Christians with Access to the Gospel

Non-Christians without Access to the Gospel

Cross-Cultural Missions

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In the World In Mexico

Evangelical Christians 10%Evangelical Christians 7%

Nominal Christians 20%

Nominal Christians 87%

Non-Christians living in Reached Ethnic Groups

WITH Access to the Gospel 40%

Non-Christians living in Reached Ethnic Groups

WITH Access to the Gospel 4%

Non-Christians living in Unreached Ethnic Groups WITHOUT Access to the

Gospel 30%

Non-Christians living in Unreached Ethnic Groups WITHOUT Access to the

Gospel 2%

A Study of the 7,000 Unreached Ethnic Groups

• There is 10% of the world’s population to evangelize the unreached 30%.

• In other words, there is one Christian for every 3 people living in unreached ethnic groups.

• We could finish the Great Commission in a couple of hours!

• Unfortunately, it’s not that easy…

The unreached ethnic groups

are very far from here!

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Maksym Yemelyanov

They practice different religions.

The Principal Religions of the Unreached Ethnic Groups

TribalsHindus

Muslims

ChineseBuddhists

Others

The Major Religious Blocks of the 10/40 Window

Countries with a majority of …

Hindus Muslims Budists

Data

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They have different cultures.

Collage by Jill Suzanne Hatcher

The Languages of the World

“

” John

3:16

In 3000 languages of the world!

They speak different languages.

• Spoken languages according to Wycliffe – 6,912

• Languages according to Operation World – 7,148

• Languages with a clear need for a translation project – 2,286

• Languages with at least a portion of the Bible translated – 2,233

• Whole Bible – 330• Only the New Testament – 1,180• At least one book – 902

The Resources for finishing the Great

Commission

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photography33/Milan Vasicek

Only 7% of the Missionaries Work among the Unreached Ethnic Groups.

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Vladimir Wangel

How the Evangelical Church Invests Its Offerings

4.5% is spent for missions among the reached ethnic groups.

Only 0.5% is spent for missions among the unreached ethnic groups.

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The Number of Christian Congregations for each Unreached Ethnic Group

A Dramatization of the Statistics

Let’s imagine that each sheet of paper in this package is a profile of an unreached ethnic group.

How many ethnic groups are represented by this package of paper?

How many times do I have

to flip these pages to see all 7,000 profiles?

14 times!

Your church does’t have to reach all 7,000 ethnic groups…

But it does have to help

reach…

one!

Can your church cooperate with

1,000 other churches to

reach one etnic group?