“No Half Gospel”. What is the State of the Gospel? the Gospel is just fine!

““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!