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"What about those instances in which a demon manifests in a Christian? In most cases the demon entered before the believer's conversion to Christianity, and the evil spirit continued to control some part of the Christian's life because the specific occult sin was never renounced. The demon claims squatters rights."
-- Bob Larson
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News: Christianity taking over planet?
Posted on Saturday, April 30 @ 20:21:43 PDT by John |
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A new book makes the case that Christianity is taking over the planet. This new book makes a compelling case it is a new, or, perhaps, old form of biblically inspired evangelical Christianity that is sweeping through places like China, Africa, India and Southeast Asia.
In "Megashift," author Jim Rutz coins a new phrase to define this fast-growing segment of the population. He calls them "core apostolics" – or "the new saints who are at the heart of the mushrooming kingdom of God."
Rutz makes the point that Christianity is overlooked as the fastest-growing faith in the world because most surveys look at the traditional Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church while ignoring Christian believers who have no part of either.
He says there are 707 million "switched-on disciples" who fit into this new category and that this "church" is exploding in growth.
"The growing core of Christianity crosses theological lines and includes 707 million born-again people who are increasing by 8 percent a year," he says.
So fast is this group growing that, under current trends, according to Rutz, the entire world will be composed of such believers by the year 2032.
"There will be pockets of resistance and unforeseen breakthroughs," writes Rutz. "Still, at the rate we're growing now, to be comically precise, there would be more Christians than people by the autumn of 2032, about 8.2 billion."
According to the author, until 1960, Western evangelicals outnumbered non-Western evangelicals – mostly Latinos, blacks and Asians – by two to one. As of 2000, non-Western evangelicals outnumbered Westerners by four to one. He says by 2010, the ratio will be seven to one.
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Re: Christianity taking over planet? (Score: 1)
 by Erick on Sunday, May 01 @ 09:00:27 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | "And what is driving this movement?
Miracles, he says.
"Megashift" attempts to document myriad healings and other powerful answers to the sincere prayers of this new category of believer, including, believe it or not, hundreds of dramatic cases of resurrections – not near-death experiences, but real resurrections of actual corpses."
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Hmmmmm, that is interesting. I tend to think that God still performs miracles (though I've never seen one like in the Bible) and could even raise a dead body, but faith-healers like Benny Hinn are full of... (how do Penn and Teller say it?) "themselves." Christ pointed to his miracles to validate his Messianic and prophetic claims, so a “miracle” without the true gospel is always in my mind suspect. I wonder what it is the “whole world” is believing, that would be an interesting survey.
Anyway, it's nice to know that objective scientific data has proven Postmillennialism, so I guess I’ll see you all in the Golden Age 2032 A.D. :^)
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Miracles behind global growth of Christianity? (Score: 1)
by Parker on Sunday, May 01 @ 09:43:22 PDT
(User Info | Send a Message) | And what is driving this movement?
Miracles, he says.
"Megashift" attempts to document myriad healings and other powerful answers to the sincere prayers of this new category of believer, including, believe it or not, hundreds of dramatic cases of resurrections – not near-death experiences, but real resurrections of actual corpses.
"When I was a kid in Sunday school, I was really impressed that 3,000 people were saved on the Day of Pentecost," he writes. "I thought, 'Wow, that'll never happen again!"
But, Rutz says, it now happens around the globe every 25 minutes.
"By tomorrow, there will be 175,000 more Christians than there are today," he writes. |
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