Einstein, Wells, Napoleon, Dostoevsky, and Harvard would agree.
What if I told you that the world's most influential leader grew up in poverty in a backwater town to an unwed mother, became a refugee, taught for 3 years, then was killed?
Wouldn't you want to know how he did it?
What if I told you that the world's most influential leader grew up in poverty in a backwater town to an unwed mother, became a refugee, taught for 3 years, then was killed?
Wouldn't you want to know how he did it?
Today, nearly a third of the world’s population is Christian and that percentage is growing steadily each year.
Christianity is the only truly world religion, with believers spanning all races, geographies, and socio-economic boundaries.
And it was that way from the beginning.
Christianity is the only truly world religion, with believers spanning all races, geographies, and socio-economic boundaries.
And it was that way from the beginning.
Richard Bauckham, senior scholar at Cambridge said, “Christianity was a world religion long before it was a European one.”
Christianity isn’t and has never been primarily white, male, nor Western. To state the obvious, Jesus was a brown-skinned Middle Eastern Jew.
Christianity isn’t and has never been primarily white, male, nor Western. To state the obvious, Jesus was a brown-skinned Middle Eastern Jew.
The first Christians were Middle Eastern and African.
Augustine and Athanasius, the earliest church fathers, were Africans and the first groups of mostly white converts didn’t occur until three centuries after Jesus’s death.
Augustine and Athanasius, the earliest church fathers, were Africans and the first groups of mostly white converts didn’t occur until three centuries after Jesus’s death.
I point this out, because Christianity is widely mocked by progressive elites as a white Western man’s religion, and they point to Christianity’s decline as inevitable with the rise of education and logic.
This is nothing new. John Lennon said this in 1966:
This is nothing new. John Lennon said this in 1966:
The only problem is it’s not true.
Religion in general and Christianity specifically isn’t on the decline. Currently 84% of the world identifies as religious, with the percentage expected to grow over the coming century.
theguardian.com
Religion in general and Christianity specifically isn’t on the decline. Currently 84% of the world identifies as religious, with the percentage expected to grow over the coming century.
theguardian.com
There have never been more Christians in the world measured in either absolute terms or as a % of the population.
Nominal white Christianity, especially in urban centers and university settings, is in decline.
But amongst basically everyone else, Christianity is booming.
Nominal white Christianity, especially in urban centers and university settings, is in decline.
But amongst basically everyone else, Christianity is booming.
As African American Yale law professor Stephen Carter said:
Experts believe China will have more Christians than the U.S. by 2030 and that it could be a majority Christian by 2050. Africa is nearing 50% of its population identifying as Christian.
If this is surprising, as it was to me, I’d encourage you to do your own research.
If this is surprising, as it was to me, I’d encourage you to do your own research.
Christianity doesn’t often look like the lily white Southern church service you see in the movies.
The real Church is an ethnically, culturally, geographically diverse gathering from around the world and through the ages.
And, that church is booming.
The real Church is an ethnically, culturally, geographically diverse gathering from around the world and through the ages.
And, that church is booming.
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