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Pressure Points Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church J.D. Payne

Pressure Points Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church J.D. Payne. J. D. Payne jpayne@brookhills.org @ jd_payne jdpayne.org. Introduction. The Church and the Pressures of the Age. Challenges of the Age. The Stewardship of Innovation. Great Commission. Kingdom Innovation.

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Pressure Points Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church J.D. Payne

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  1. Pressure PointsTwelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the ChurchJ.D. Payne

  2. J. D. Paynejpayne@brookhills.org@jd_paynejdpayne.org

  3. Introduction The Church and the Pressures of the Age

  4. Challenges of the Age

  5. The Stewardship of Innovation

  6. Great Commission

  7. Kingdom Innovation Spirit-Filled Church

  8. “Desire without knowledge is not good,and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way”(Proverbs, 19:2, ESV).

  9. Unreached People Groups“The Bread of Life is simply not available to hundreds and hundreds of millions of people.”David A. Fraser

  10. Nations: from Countries to Peoples

  11. What is a People Group?

  12. Unengaged and Unreached

  13. 11,342 total people groups • 6,422 unreached people groups (not including the US and Canada • 571 unreached people groups in the US and Canada • 3,133 unreached-unengaged people groups

  14. Why Evangelicals?

  15. Where Is Our Priority?

  16. Strangers Next Door

  17. Cross-Cultural Disciple Making Needed

  18. The West as a Mission Field“The west is, once again, a vast mission field.”George G. Hunter III

  19. Post-Christian Mission Field

  20. Global Status of Evangelical Christianity 2013 Edition

  21. From 35,000 to 15,000 Feet

  22. Least Evangelical US States, 2010

  23. Urban Contexts in the US under 5% Evangelical

  24. Urban Contexts in the US under 5% Evangelical (cont.)

  25. Urban Contexts in the US under 5% Evangelical (cont.)

  26. Faiths on the Move

  27. Returning to the Apostolic

  28. From Simplicity to Complexity

  29. From Apostolic to Pastoral

  30. Need for Scaffolds

  31. Both/And

  32. Growth of the Majority World Church “It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade” (Mark 4:31-32, ESV).

  33. An Enquiry into the Majority World Church

  34. Select Countries with Evangelical Percentages

  35. Forgetting About the Mustard Seed

  36. Select Missionary-Sending Countries

  37. Select Missionary-Sending Countries (cont.)

  38. Kingdom Opportunities

  39. Pluralism and the Plurality of Faiths“I am the Way…No one comes to the Father except through me”(John 14:6, ESV).

  40. Pluralism: How the Pressure Is Felt---Internally

  41. Plurality of Faiths: How the Pressure is Felt---Externally

  42. World Totals • Folk Religionists 405,120,000 • Hindus 1,033,808,000 • Buddhists 487,540,000 • Jews 13,850,000 • Others 58,110,000

  43. Countries with the Largest Number of Religiously Unaffiliated

  44. Countries with the Largest Muslim Populations 2010, 2030

  45. 2010, 2030 Comparison of Muslim Proportions by Selected Countries and Regions

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