Serious Questions for Contemporary Christians

CVI² is a non-religious organization motivated by Christian values. Half of CVI² associates work overseas or travel globally, with good reason, and others would do so if their budgets so permitted. Should Christians not put their focus where needs are greatest, since to do so would be biblically correct, show common sense, and reflect good stewardship? [The poor, broken, captives, deprived, hurting, less-loved, less-reached, unreached, disadvantaged, underprivileged, neglected, poor, needy, destitute, oppressed, etc. Matt. 22:39; Luke 4:18; John 4:35; Acts 10:34-35; Rom. 1:13, 16; 15:20-21; 2 Cor. 8:13-15; 10:16; 11:8-9; Col. 4:1; Jas. 2:1-9, 14-17.]

Questions for Christians Everywhere

Should Christians not think much more about global service, more actively support global projects, and increasingly involve themselves globally, since:

• Christ commanded Christians to love their neighbors and   go (not visit) into all nations?
• 67% of all humans from AD 30 have never heard of Jesus’ name or teachings ?

• 67% of all humans today profess to be non-Christian?
• 1.6 billion of Earth’s people remain unevangelized?
• Religions not even contacted by Christianity contain 500 million people?
• 818 ethno-linguistic peoples have never become the focus of any Christians?
• 500 million people have never even been contacted by Christianity?
• 78 million people in 6,800 languages still have no access to any scripture?
• Our 4,000 foreign mission agencies baptize only 4 million new persons a year, while 124 million new souls begin life on Earth each year?
• Earth’s population will double in 50 years?

Should Christians not take greater interest in people around the world, adjust our living, refocus our sending, and increase our funding to long-term, global missions, since:

• More of our brethren Christians have been killed, executed or murdered because of their faith in Christ in the last 100 years than during the previous 1900 years?
• Approximately one-half of Earth’s people are now young people?
• 91% of all our Christian outreach targets countries, cities, peoples, populations, or situations where more than 95% are already evangelized and 60% are Christian?
• Christians direct almost all of their expenditures to the 141 predominantly Christian countries (2 billion souls) where more than 95% are evangelized and more than 60% are Christian? [ 96.0 % of our radio/TV expenditures, 94.8 % of our church and agency expenditures, 86.6 % of our foreign missions expenditures, 84.8 % of our scripture expenditures, and 90.0 % of our Christian book expenditures.]
• Christians direct little of their expenditures to the 59 countries (2.9 billion souls) where greater than 50% are evangelized and less than 60% are Christian? [ 3.9% of our radio/TV expenditures, 5.1% of our church and agency expenditures, 11.7% of our foreign missions expenditures, 14.5% of our scripture expenditures, 9.9% of our Christian book expenditures.]
• Christians direct almost no expenditures to the 38 countries (1.6 billion souls) that are primarily unevangelized? [ 0.01% of our radio/TV expenditures, 0.01% of our church and agency expenditures, 1.7% of our foreign missions expenditures, 0.4% of our scripture expenditures, 0.1% of our Christian book expenditures.]
• 40% of our Christians’ entire global foreign mission resources are being deployed to just 10 oversaturated countries already possessing strong citizen-run home ministries?
• More than 90% of all our Christians’ ministry materials are in English, but only 8% of the world speaks English?
• Christians spend up to 700 times more money to baptize converts in rich countries than in poor countries?
• Christians spend more on the annual audits of their churches and agencies ($810 million) than on all their workers in the non-Christian world?
• At least three of the 45 varieties of effective evangelism can now easily target any audience on earth, including the majority of unreached people groups who live in countries with restricted access?
• Only 32% of the world’s Christians are Great Commission (evangelical) Christians?
• 70% of the world’s 648 million evangelicals have never been told about the world’s 1.6 billion unevangelized?
• 46% of the world’s 648 million evangelicals are Whites?
• Christians spend around $8 billion per year (more than half the total spent doing missions) going to the more than 500 conferences to TALK about missions.

Questions for American Christians

Should American Christians, who control TRILLIONS in assets, and spend 95% of their church budgets on their own comforts and programs, already 230 billion dollars on church buildings, while 200 MILLION of their brothers and sisters are starving, not:

• Change their focus to fellow servants and servant networks globally?
• Seek much more to assist their poor and needy brethren throughout the world?

Should not American Christians allow the Bible to transform radically their use of Christ’s gifts to the Church and the way they do church, since:

• The New Testament clearly teaches us that Christ’s church is his community of love, serving the world in his name?
• Western churches have greatly replaced that calling with cultural practices?
• Churches in the developing world generally pursues their calling and are growing?
• 60% of America’s Christian congregations, failing to live up Christ’s call, are expected to disappear by 2050?
• 1000s of God’s choice servants find no place in the America’s bigger churches?
• Only 3% of America’s young ministers will retire as ordained ministers, having been prevented leading it biblicall.