““No Half Gospel”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
0.00% 1.00% 2.00% 3.00% 4.00% 5.00%
non-Religious
Buddhist
World
Christian
Hindu
Traditional ethnic
Muslim
Evangelical
Annual Growth Rate of World Religions
Where we are now
The Western Church
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2010
Pacific
North America
Europe
Latin America
Asia
Africa
World Christianity – Continent by Continent
ASIA
NORTH AMERICA
AFRICA
PACIFIC
LATIN AMERICA
EUROPE
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
WHAT PERCENT OFCHRISTIANS ARE
EVANGELICALIN FAITH?
Where we are now
The Majority World Church
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010
Pacific
Europe
North America
Latin America
Asia
Africa
World Evangelicals – Continent by Continent
3%
CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONARIESWHERE DO THEY COME FROM?
The World’s Mission Force
West
Majority
World
70%?
1 Mongolia 222
2 Lebanon 295
3 Singapore 400
4 Niger 451
5 Nepal 458
6 Sri Lanka 479
7 Spain 512
8 Faeroe Is 533
9 Mali 608
10 Thailand 633
How many Christians to send 1 missionary?*
*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 nationsnationsand then
the end will come
Matthew 24:14
ethne
Others 600Buddhist 1000
Tribal2000
Hindu 2700
Muslim4100
Muslim Hindu Tribal Buddhist All Others
Unreached People Groups
Countries with the Most Unreached Peoples
India
China
PakistanBangladesh
Nepal
India 2332 2082
China 499 406
Pakistan 401 386
Bangladesh 370 336
Nepal 315 292
Country # Peoples # UnreachedPeoples
The Task RemainingThe Task Remaining
Imbalanced Sending
World Population Foreign Missionaries
Missionary Presence
The Task RemainingThe Task Remaining
Strategic Issues
Priorities
Mobilizing
Sacrifice
Partnership
Prayer
Getting The Job Done
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 “emotionally-driven 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 When the Great Foundation, the Great Commandment and the Great Great Commandment and the Great Commission are held together, Commission are held together, Christians are emboldened to preach Christians are emboldened to preach biblical truth in all spheres of life. biblical truth in all spheres of life.
We were, we are challenged to be We were, we are challenged to be holistic gospellers!holistic gospellers!