Source: Justin Long for Beyond, April 12, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the mid-1990s, we have witnessed the remarkable and explosive of disciple-making movements globally, with much of that growth happening in the past 10 years. From a very small handful of known movements in 1995, the number has grown to over 1,850 movements globally, encompassing over 99.9 million believers in 6.8 million churches (typically small, house-church type gatherings). This means over 1% of the world\u2019s total population are Christ-followers in rapidly growing movements!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These numbers are the tip of the iceberg\u2014the \u201cfloor\u201d and not the \u201cceiling.\u201d Certainly, the numbers are higher than this. These movements can be found in every [region] though their largest numbers are in Africa and parts of Asia (mostly Southern Asia). Growth is especially significant in the world\u2019s least-reached places. Movements are touching every religious block, growing markedly among Muslim and Hindu peoples, with progress also among some Buddhist peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, in many places, this remarkable growth is still a just drop in the bucket among the much larger populations. Much work still remains to be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full article<\/a> also summarizes several ways to look at how close we are to seeing every people group and place engaged with the gospel and points out the remaining gaps. See a data dashboard on the 24:14 Network\u2019s website<\/a> (under \u201cGlobal Movement Statistics\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also the March\/April edition of Mission Frontiers<\/a>, which takes a fresh look at the essential elements of such movements, or pick up a copy of the 2021 book Motus Dei: The Movement of God to Disciple the Nations<\/a> (William Carey Publishing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Justin Long for Beyond, April 12, 2022 Since the mid-1990s, we have witnessed the remarkable and explosive of disciple-making movements globally, with much of that growth happening in the past 10 years. From a very small handful of known movements in 1995, the number has grown to over 1,850 movements globally, encompassing over 99.9 … Continue reading Global: Number of Disciple-Making Movements Tops 1,850<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10977,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10976\/revisions\/10977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}