I was horrified on Thanksgiving Day to learn about the most recent case of evangelicals behaving badly. But this time it was one of our own, a historian.
Christian education is the ultimate disciple-making tool for everyday Christians, whatever their vocations. That is why the aim and purpose are entirely different than a wholly secular institution in higher learning.
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At the time of William Carey, there were probably only a few hundred Protestant missionaries in the world. They never numbered more than a few thousand during the following decades. By 1900, even after a second burst of Protestant missions, there were only 15,000 European and American Protestant missionaries throughout the world. Those who went had short careers; many died within the first two years on the field. Thus the numbers remained quite small.
But the magnitude of the modern missions movement must not be measured by the number of missionaries. It must be measured by the growth of the church.
In 1800, perhaps 1 percent of Protestant Christians lived in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. By 1900, this number had grown to 10 percent. Today, at least 67 percent of all active Protestant Christians live in countries once considered foreign mission fields. And the church is still growing rapidly, even explosively, in many areas Korea, sub-Saharan Africa, Singapore, and the Peoples�