The Craziest Statistic You'll Read About North American Missions
One out of five non-Christians in North America doesn't know any Christians.
That's not in the fake-Gandhi-quote "I would become a Christian, if I ever met one" sense.
It's new research in Gordon-Conwell's Center for the Study of Global Christianity's Christianity in its Global Context, 1970-2020. Missiologist Todd M. Johnson and his team found that 20 percent of non-Christians in North America really do not "personally know" any Christians.
That's 13,447,000 people—about the population of metropolitan Los Angeles or Istanbul—most of them in the United States....
Dr. Mark Allison | 7/20/2006
