1950- The "typical" Christian was an upper middle class white male who resided in Suburbia.
2008- The "typical" Christian was a Nigerian peasant, a university student in Seoul, or a Latin American teen.
1950- Christians were 80 percent white, predominantly from western countries, and residents of the northern hemisphere.
2008- The demographic makeup of Christians was 40 percent white with the majority residing in the southern hemisphere and eastern nations.
1950- The center of Christianity is no longer the United States or Western Europe, but Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
2008- Thirty-three percent of Christians were in the minority population, and it is projected that by 2050, 80 percent of Christians will be non-white.
Soong-Chan Rah, professor at North Park Seminary in Chicago, conducted a research study with the findings above. I heard Rah speak at CCDA last year in Miami...compelling and convicting....provided a needed time of tears and repentance and embrace in the company of a few of my black friends as I recognized American white dominance in the Church like I never had before. I just recently bought Rah's book The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity and look forward to reading it later this fall.
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