Reading: Matthew 28:16-20
Quotes: “Therefore, if the sustaining promise is expressed in terms that endure to the end of the age, we may rightly assume that the command to make disciples also endures to the end of the age.” –John Piper (from Let the Nations be Glad!)
“And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.” (2 Timothy 2:2)
“We are currently living through one of the transforming moment in the history of religion worldwide… Over the last century, the center of gravity in the Christian world has shifted inexorably away from Europe, southward to Africa and Latin America, and eastward, toward Asia. Today, the largest Christian communities on the planet are to be found in those regions. If we want to visualize a ‘typical’ contemporary Christian, we should think of a woman living in a village in Nigeria, or in a Brazilian favela. In parts of Asia too church are growing rapidly, in numbers and self-confidence. As Kenyan scholar John Mbiti has observed, ‘the centers of the church’s universality [are] no longer in Geneva, Rome, Athens, Paris, London, New York, but Kinshasa, Buenos Aires, Addis Ababa and Manila.’ Whatever Europeans or North Americans may believe, Christianity is doing very well indeed in the global South—not just surviving but expanding.” –Philip Jenkins (from The Next Christendom)
Video Clips: Penn Jillette on proselytizing
Books: Operation World (Jason Mandryk)
The Next Christendom (Philip Jenkins)