The Arithmetic of the Church

This is the Introduction to the Sermon. You will receive the full manuscript sermon in Word format when you purchase. Title: “The Arithmetic of the Church” Series: Church as God Intended Introduction: [1]Dan Meyer lists some encouraging statistics about the growth of the church around the world in his book, “Witness Essentials”: In 1900 Korea had no Protestant church. Today, there are over 7,000 churches in just the city of Seoul, South Korea. At the end of the 19th century, the southern portion of Africa was only 3 percent Christian. Today, 63 percent of the population is Christian, while membership in the churches in Africa is increasing by 34,000 people per day. In India, 14 million of the 140 million members of the "untouchable" caste have become Christians. More people in the Islamic world have come to Christ in the last 25 years than in the entire history of Christian missions. In Islamic Indonesia, the percentage of Christians is now so high (around 15 percent) that the Muslim