{"id":5584,"date":"2016-08-16T03:47:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christian-continental-shift\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:47:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:47:01","slug":"christian-continental-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christian-continental-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTIAN\n  CONTINENTAL SHIFT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Believers; Body of Christ; Christianity; Church; Evangelism; Family of God; Great Commission; Missions<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Genesis 18:18; 22:18; Psalm 22:27; 96:3; Matthew 24:14; 28:18\u201320; Mark 16:15; Acts 1:8; 26:17\u201318<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>At the start of the twentieth century, only 10 percent of the world\u2019s Christians lived in the Southern continents and the East, while 90 percent lived in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Today at least 70 percent of the world\u2019s Christians live in the non-Western world. More Christians worship in Anglican churches in Nigeria each week than in all the Episcopal and Anglican churches of Britain, Europe, and North America combined. There are more Baptists in Congo than in Britain, more people in church every Sunday in communist China than in all of Western Europe, and ten times more Assemblies of God members in Latin America than in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014Christopher J. H. Wright, \u201cAn Upside-Down World,\u201d <i>Christianity Today<\/i> (January 2007)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Believers; Body of Christ; Christianity; Church; Evangelism; Family of God; Great Commission; Missions References: Genesis 18:18; 22:18; Psalm 22:27; 96:3; Matthew 24:14; 28:18\u201320; Mark 16:15; Acts 1:8; 26:17\u201318 At the start of the twentieth century, only 10 percent of the world\u2019s Christians lived in the Southern continents and the East, while 90 percent lived &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christian-continental-shift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CHRISTIAN<br \/>\n  CONTINENTAL SHIFT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}