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Scary Statistics
What Must I Do To Be Saved?One of the most important questions which needs to be answered today is the title of this article: "What Must I Do To Be Saved?" .....
Scary Statistics
By Doug Perry
I was wondering what to post today and received this today from
a friend in Israel. I thought it was so good, I would share it
with you.
Aliens In ArchaeologyAs you read this book you will have to suspend the disbelief you feel when confronted with my .....
"THE UNARGUABLE FACTS" -by Doug Perry. [-Kansas City
businessman]
Forgive Us, God!! Big Government. Big Business. Big Oil. Big
Tobacco. BIG CHURCH. The Church has become part of the problem.
We're not living like Christ. Of course they think we're
hypocrites - because we ARE! Forgive us, God.
"Scarey Stats"
We fully expect you to stomp away mad, but you might want to
consider that our only effort here is to point out facts about
how big the problem has gotten .
This is a compilation of the scariest, most embarrassing, most
shocking statistics and information about the Church and its
affairs. Somebody is going to have to stand before Jesus one day
and explain their role in this. We don't want it to be us - or
you. We don't quote anything haphazardly without having good
documentation and sources.
The FACTS:
38 countries are primarily unevangelized. (i.e. 1.6 Billion
souls)
Assets of the Church:
US Christians control TRILLIONS in assets while at any given
time 200,000,000 Brothers and Sisters starve.
78 countries each have Great Commission Christians whose
personal incomes exceed US$1 billion a year. Financial Fraud in
the Church:
Annual church embezzlements by top custodians exceed the entire
cost of all foreign missions worldwide. Emboldened by lax
procedures, trusted church treasurers are embezzling from the
Church $5,500,000 PER DAY. That's $16 Billion per YEAR! {For
reference: TOTAL Christian spending on foreign missions is only
$15 Billion. God forgive us!}
Criminal penalties against clergy in sexual abuse cases now
You Lookin' At Me?It's human nature to point a finger when we think someone else is guilty of something but yet we don't stop to ..... exceed $1 billion, causing a number of churches, dioceses and
denominations to be forced into bankruptcy.
Wasteful Spending by the Church:
95% of all church budgets in the US are spent on our own
comforts and programs. Less than 1% is spent on evangelism to
the most unreached.
40% of the churchs entire global foreign mission resources are
being deployed to just 10 oversaturated countries already
possessing strong citizen-run home ministries.
More than 90% of all Christian materials are in English, but
only 8% of the world speaks English.
All costs of ministry divided by number of baptisms per year.
Cost per baptism in India - $9803 per person. Cost per baptism
in the United States - $1,550,000 per person.
Every year the churches hold a mega census costing $1.1 billion,
sending out 10 million questionnaires in 3,000 languages, which
covers 180 major religious subjects.
91% of all Christian outreach/evangelism does not target
non-Christians but targets other Christians in
already-evangelized countries or people-groups.
Each year,180 million Bibles and New Testaments are wasted -
lost, destroyed, or disintegrated - due to incompetence,
hostility, bad planning, or inadequate manufacture.
Science Vs. HealersSherry (My ex) had a couple of problems of a medical nature. Her hypoglycemia had been .....
Missions and the Church:
Some 250 of the 300 largest international Christian
organizations regularly mislead the Christian public by
publishing demonstrably incorrect or falsified progress
statistics.
Christian triumphalism - not as pride in huge numbers, but as
publicized self-congratulation - is rampant in most churches,
agencies, and ministries.
It costs Christians 700 times more money to baptize converts in
rich countries (eg. Switzerland) than in poor countries (e.g.
Nepal).
Percent of Christian resources in countries that are already
more than 60% Christian - 99.9%. Percent spent in countries
where less than half the people have EVER heard of Jesus - 0.01%.
It is estimated that Christians worldwide spend around $8
BILLION dollars PER YEAR going to the more than 500 conferences
to TALK about missions. That's more than TWICE the total spent
DOING missions.
Everywhere on Earth can now easily be targeted with at least 3
of the 45 varieties of effective evangelism.
818 unevangelized ethno-linguistic peoples have never been
targeted by any Christian agencies ever.
Out of 648 million Great Commission Christians, 70% have never
been told about the world's 1.6 billion unevangelized
individuals.
The 3 least cost-effective countries over 1 million in
population for Christian outreach are: Japan, Switzerland,
Denmark.
The 3 most cost-effective countries over 1 million in population
Healing PromisedProblem: Many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. How many people do you know that can't stand on their own two feet ..... for Christian outreach are: Mozambique, Ethiopia, Tanzania.
Denominations of the Church:
Currently there are over 33,000 Christian denominations in the
United States.
A huge new Christian non-confessional mega bloc, the
Independents or Post-denominationalists,is growing rapidly and
numbers 19% of all Christians. These 386 million Independents in
220 countries have no interest in and no use for historic
denominationalist Christianity.
From less than one million in AD 1900, Pentecostals/
Charismatics/Neocharismatics have mushroomed to 524 million
affiliated (-with unaffiliated believers, 602 million).
Growth of the Church:
The country with the fastest Christian expansion ever is China,
now at 10,000 new converts every day.
Persecution of the Church:
More than 70% of all Christians now live in countries where they
are experiencing persecution. In some cases EXTREME persecution.
Global Population Issues:
124 million new souls begin life on Earth each year, but
Christianitys 4,000 foreign mission agencies baptize only 4
million new persons a year.
Unreached Peoples
Out of 648 million Great Commission Christians, 70% have never
been told about worlds 1.6 billion unevangelized individuals.
Despite Christs command to evangelize the world, 67% of all
humans from AD 30 to the present have never even heard of his
name.
Martyrdom:
Over the last 20 centuries, and in all 238 countries, more than
70 million Christians have been martyred - killed, executed,
murdered - for Christ.
More Christians have been martyred in the last 100 years than
all other years since AD 30 combined.
Had Enough Yet? It gets worse. We're stuffing the Fattest and
starving the Hungriest!
This is meant to be just a plain, direct reporting of how
miserably, horribly, devastatingly badly we - the Christians in
the West - have mismanaged the massive gifts which God has
entrusted to us.
-Doug Perry. [Visit his website- http://whathavewedone.org ]
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