WHAT IS THE POPULATION OF THE PHILIPPINES TODAY? HOW MANY FILIPINOS ARE TRUE CHRISTIANS?

1. WHAT IS THE POPULATION OF THE PHILIPPINES TODAY? HOW MANY FILIPINOS ARE TRUE CHRISTIANS?

2. THE CHURCH IN THE PHILIPPINES • Based on the official May 2000 census of the Philippines, the National statistics office published the Religious affiliations of the country’s population. • According to this report, • the EVANGELICALS & other PROTESTANTS constitute a combined TOTAL of • 6.5% only of the entire population.

3. NUMBER OF CHURCHES IN THE PHILIPPINES 1890 – 1975 : 5,000 1976 – 2000 : 51,575 2001 – 2007 : 60,000

4. POPULATION OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES: • Approximately 99% of the churches average less than 300 worshippers • Approximately 90% of the churches average less than 100 worshippers • Approximately 60% of the churches average less than 50 worshippers • Approximately 30% of the churches average less than 30 worshippers • From Philippine challenge - Ptr. Dave White

5. SIZE OF EVANGELICAL / PROTESTANT CHURCHES

6. THE CHURCH IN THE PHILIPPINES • PCEC STATED IN THEIR REPORT THAT IN THE PHILIPPINES THERE ARE STILL APPROXIMATELY • 26,000 BARANGAY’S (VILLAGES) WITHOUT A SINGLE CHURCH.

7. OBSERVATIONS • CHURCHES Emptyon weekdays. • No church workers on regular days. • Pastor not a resident of the area. • Members are busy with their lives.

8. Why are Christian churches not growing? • What is the real problem besetting Christian churches?

9. WHY ARE CHURCHES NOT GROWING? • Most people who are called Christians are spiritual babies. • They can’t even feed themselves. • They have to be spoon-fed weeklyby sitting passively in a church service. • That’s why improved sermons, bigger churches, and better trained pastors can’t help.

10. WHY ARE CHURCHES NOT GROWING? • Church members are passiveaudiences. • Participationof the Laity is not encouraged. • Lack of Participationhindersthe expression of inspiration, affirmation, information, celebration and transformation. • We have forgotten to practice group Bible reading & allow the HOLY SPIRIT to teach & reveal what GOD wants to reveal to the brethren.

11. WHY ARE CHURCHES NOT GROWING? • Humanism is more popularly preached. • Discussion Bible Study (DBS) or Participative Bible study is seldom practiced. • Many Christians don’t have time for Bible studies. • Most Christians do not know what is in the Bible. • They have heard and read much about the Bible, but seldom get into the Bible itself.

12. SURVEY QUESTIONAIRE • COMPLETE NAME • NAME OF CHURCH • DESIGNATION/ RESPONSIBILITY

13. SURVEY 1. WHY ARE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES NOT GROWING? (Choose one) • LACK OF FUNDS / MONEY • CHURCH DOES NOT HAVE GOOD FACILITIES • DON’T HAVE ENOUGH WORKERS • OTHER REASONS : ________________

14. SURVEY 2. WHAT IS A CHURCH? 3. DO YOU INTENTIONALY PRAY & SEEK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE THE GOSPEL? 4. HAVE YOU EVER SET A GOAL (NUMBER OF PEOPLE) TO SHARE THE GOSPEL? 5. WHY DO WE SHARE THE GOSPEL?

15. SURVEY 6. WHY ARE CHRISTIANS NOT SHARING THE GOSPEL? • YOU ARE SHY • AFRAID OF REJECTION • DON’T KNOW HOW TO SHARE THE GOSPEL • YOU ARE BUSY & DON’T HAVE TIME

16. 7. SALVATION • FAITH + GOODWORKS = SALVATION • FAITH + BAPTISM = SALVATION • FAITH + 0 = SALVATION • FAITH + BAPTISM + GOODWORKS = SALVATION

17. THE REAL REASONWHY CHURCHES ARE NOT GROWING: CHRISTIANS ARE SHARING THE GOSPEL! NOT

18. WHY ARE CHRISTIANS NOT SHARING THE GOSPEL?

19. Result of survey / Reasons cited: • They are shy to approach people they don’t know • They are scared of rejection • They don’t know how to share the Gospel • They are busy with work

20. THE REAL REASON: MANY CHRISTIANS NEVER FULLY UNDERSTOOD THE GOSPEL!

21. American church statistics show • Churches lose estimated 2,765,000 people each year to nominalism and secularism. • Between 3,500 to 4,000 churches close their doors each year in America. • Half of all churches last year did not add one new member through "conversion growth" • Approx. 98 million people are under the age of 25 in the United States & those between the ages of 18-25 are the least likely to attend a church.

22. D-GRP; G-12; CELL GRPS; CARE GROUP; etc PROBLEM: • Many leaders of these groups also did not understand the Gospel well. They are not equipped to handle groups. At best they only have fellowship & fun. • Many cell group leaders have notmade a habit of reading the Bible from cover to cover. • They are not immersed in the Word so they don’t know what to teach & how to lead their D-grp.

23. D-GRP; G-12; CELL GRPS; CARE GROUP; etc PROBLEM • They don’t spend much time in PRAYER. • Most members are not committed . • Many cell or D-grp members don’thave a burden to serve & get involved in ministry.

24. D-GRP; G-12; CELL GRPS; CARE GROUP; etc PROBLEM • They are busy in the world. • They don’t have time to serve. • Many Christians never surrendered their lives to GOD.

25. WORKSHOP • Discuss how to share the Gospel • Each group will make a presentation on • How to share the Gospel

26. THE PROBLEM? • CHRISTIANS THINK CHURCH IS A BUILDING LOCATED IN A CERTAIN PLACE. THEY HAVE CONFUSED CHURCH WITH A BUILDING. • THE TRUE MEANING & DEFINITION OF CHURCH HAS BEEN OBLITERATED. • WORSHIP HAS TAKEN ON A DIFFERENT MEANING. IT IS SINGING ON A SUNDAY SERVICE. • WORSHIP IS DONE ONLY ONCE A WEEK.

27. THE PROBLEM? • PASTORS FAILED TO EQUIP THEIR PEOPLE TO ACT AS A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD. • CHRISTIANS THINK ONLY PASTORS ARE TASKED TO PLANT CHURCHES. • CHRISTIANS THINK ONLY ORDAINED PASTORS ARE EQUIPPED & QUALIFIED TO DO THE WORK OF A MINISTER.

28. THE PROBLEM? • CHRISTIANS NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE BELIEVER. • THEY NEVER UNDERSTOOD THEIR CALLING. JN.15:16 • THEY ARE CONTENT TO SIT IN PEWS & LISTEN TO THE PASTOR. • CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN UNWITTINGLY CONDITIONED TO ACT AS SPECTATORS IN CHURCH.

29. THE PROBLEM? • MOST CHRISTIANS CAN BE CATEGORIZED AS NOMINAL CHRISTIANS. • THEY ARE REPRESENTED BY THOSE WHO PAUL WARNED TIMOTHY ABOUT • “AS HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS, BUT DENYING THE POWER THEREIN.” THEY SIT IN CHURCH PEWS, BUT THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE GOSPEL SIMPLY GO OVER THEIR HEADS.

30. THE PROBLEM? • LAYMEN HAVE NOT BEEN ENCOURAGED NOR TAPPED TO DO THE WORK OF CHURCH PLANTING. • CHRISTIANS HAVE CREATED THE WRONG IMPRESSION THAT TO BE CALLED A CHRISTIAN YOU NEED TO GO TO CHURCH EVERY SUNDAY. • MANY CHRISTIANS ARE AT BEST CHURCH GOERS OR ATTENDEES.

31. THE PROBLEM? • PEOPLE ARE MORE PROTECTIVE OF THEIR POSITION & POSSESSIONS THAN THEY ARE OF THE GOSPEL AND ITS SPREAD. • CHURCH HAS BECOME A LOCATION RATHER THAN US. • MANY CHRISTIANS ARE NOT LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO DISCIPLE

32. MEGASHIFT Amazing, wonderful, MIRACLES happening all around the World. By: James Rutz

33. An Unprecedented Movement • In China, there is an unprecedented movement that even surpasses that early growth of the church • and this unparalleled revival is a house church movement. • The following is taken from the Caleb Report in the 1990 Jan./Feb. issue of MINISTRIES MAGAZINE. The report is given by Loren Cunningham, founder and president of YWAM “YOUTH WITH A MISSION:”

34. An Unprecedented Movement • "According to the U.S. Center For World Mission, • more than 22,000Chinese are coming to Christ each day. • That is the equivalent of seven days of Pentecost every 24 hours and it is happening right now. • Most of this explosion of new belief is coming from China’s rural communities, where 80% of the population of China lives.

35. An Unprecedented Movement • Jonathan Chao, founder of the Chinese Church Research Center in Hong Kong , says the Chinese revival is being spread by young people, mostly ages 15 to 19. • The teenagers go to villages and share the gospel where it has never been heard before. • As converts are organized into small groups, the teens call for the ‘elders, (believers in their twenties) to come and teach the newly formed home church while the younger Christians go on to reach the next village.

36. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA • There was Tawpaun, 33, a wife and mother in China, who planted • 233 churches in one year & baptized 12,000 • There was even a 90-year-old Chinese lady who led 5,000 people to Christ simply by putting up a little sign at a notorious “Lovers’ Leap” saying, “Before you commit suicide, come see me at ___________ (her address).”

37. Lily & Zhang From Open Doors’ Pierre Tschanz comes a charming report that will make you delighted or embarrassed or both: One of their workers took some bibles to a house church in Central China and gave them to two new believers, Lily & Zhang, sisters who had been saved that day in the house church. Around two years later, another member of their staff was in the same town and met Lily & Zhang. He wanted to know what they had done since becoming Christians.

38. Lily & Zhang Ashamed, the two girls blushed & bowed their heads, as though it were an exam. “We planted churches,” they said. “How many?” The girls looked at each other cautiously. “Only 29.” Astonished, the representative asked how many members the church had. “In the smallest. . . only 300 come for prayer,” they said humbly. “And in the largest, no more than… 5,000.”

39. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA For 21 years Mrs. Chang had lain in bed at her home in China, unable to move her arms or legs. Finally, the pain got to be too much, and she asked her eldest son to take her to the hospital, 40 miles away. The doctors there discovered that some of her organs were almost dead, so they advised her son, “Take her home so she can die with your family.” But before she left, a Christian nurse came by her bed and slipped her a copy of the Gospel of Mark. “Read this when you get home,” she whispered.

40. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA When Mrs. Chang got home, about the first thing she did was to ask her son to read something from the booklet. Opening it to page one, he began: “This is the good news of Jesus Christ….” Before he could read any further, Mrs. Chang’s bones started to move. Within moments, she sat up, completely healed! She promptly gave her life to the Lord. The next day, on her way to the village well to draw water, she was asked by everyone, “Say, aren’t you Mrs. Chang? What doctor healed you? We want to use him too!.

41. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA Mrs. Chang invited all the women to her simple home. When a large group had assembled, she stood and began speaking: “This is the good news of Jesus Christ….” In only four (4) weeks, all 600 people of the village decided to follow Jesus! From there, the story gets even more interesting: When the report got around, a police force arrived to stamp out this “new sect.” They beat the villagers, shot their animals, burned the crops, and left, thinking that would be the last they would ever hear about this Jesus Christ.

42. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA They were oh, so wrong: The 600 converts remained steadfast, and within four years, 70,000 turned to Christ throughout the whole region. The star of this story? The faithful nurse.

43. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA IN A RESTRICTED AREA, A GROUP OF BELIEVERS STARTED PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL IN NOV.2000. BY SEPT.2004THEY : • PLANTED 44,086 CHURCHES • WON 483,635NEW BELIEVERS • TO DATE THEY ESTIMATE THEY COULD WELL BE OVER A MILLION CHRISTIANS NOW

44. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA • A 30 YEAR OLD FARMER NAMED NOAH WAS INTERVIEWED BY AN AMERICAN VISITOR IN 2004. THE INTERVIEWER NOTICED THAT MRS. NOAH WAS SUNBURNED BECAUSE SHE HAD PUT IN LONG HOURS IN THE FIELDS THAT DAY. A TYPICAL HARD-WORKING FARM FAMILY… • OVER DINNER WITH OTHER GUEATS, THE VISITOR ASKED NOAH, IN HIS BEGINNER’S CHINESE,

45. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA • “HOW MANY CHRISTIAN WORKERS DO YOU HAVE?” • HE GOT AN ANSWER THAT SOUNDED TO HIM LIKE THIRTY THOUSAND. • “NO,” HE OBJECTED. “I SAID, ‘HOW MANY FULL-TIME MISSIONARIES DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR CHURCH NETWORK?” • HE GOT THE SAME ANSWER

46. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA • SO HE WAVED AT HIS INTERPRETER. • “HEY, I’M TRYING TO ASK THIS GUY NOAH HOW MANY CHURCH PLANTERS HE’S RESPONSIBLE FOR.” • THE INTERPRETER QUERRIED NOAH, THEN REPLIED, “HE SAYS .. • THIRTY THOUSAND – IN A RADIUS OF 500 KILOMETERS.”

47. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA • THE AMERICAN COULD’NT QUITE HANDLE THAT . SO HE ASKED, • “WELL – HOW MANY TOTAL MEMBERS DOES THAT MAKE IN HIS WHOLE NETWORK?” • THE ANSWER WAS: EIGHT MILLION!

48. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA • THE AMERICAN SUDDENLY FELT EXTREMELY HUMBLE TO BE SITTING WITH A YOUNG FARMER WHO LOOKS AFTER THE WELFARE OF 8,000,000 PEOPLE ! • LATER IN THE SAME TRIP, HE WAS SMACKED BY AN EVEN LARGER WAVE OF HUMILITY WHEN HE MET ANOTHER LEADER • RESPONSIBLE FOR TEN MILLION!

49. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA • AFTER THAT, HE MET “BIG JOHN,” A THIRTY- SOMETHING MAN MUCH RESPECTED ACROSS CHINA WHO LEADS • TWELVE MILLION! • AT THAT POINT THIS AMERICAN SAID HE FELT EXTREMELY TINY. • HE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE FELT DOWNRIGHT INVISIBLE IF HE HAD MET “THE HEAVENLY MAN”

50. CHURCH GROWTH IN CHINA • THAT’S THE PET NAME OF BROTHER YUN, A MUCH LOVED GENTLEMAN WHO PROVIDES LEADERSHIP FOR CHINA’S LARGEST NETWORK OF HOUSE CHURCHES, TOTALING • 60,000,000PEOPLE • HIS MOVEMENT IS PLANNING ON • WINNING 45 MILLION MORE TO CHRIST THIS YEAR!