A brother sent these interesting stats into the mind boggling subject of the Great Commission and population growth......
We know that God is working on a scale that includes the whole world, so any
view we have, needs to include the whole world. We have proof from the Bible
that God reveals Himself to every human on earth in a way sufficient for
them to find salvation and experience the abundant life. Here are some
interesting facts that boggle our poor little minds!
The world population is growing by 144 people every minute. That works out
to 8640 people every hour, 207,360 people every day, and 75,686,400 people
every year.
According to the 2011 yearbook, our church has 22,869 people in
it, so every 2.6 hours there is another group of NEW people in the world as
large as our entire conference. Our church gained 304 members worldwide in
2010. This is less than 1 per day (.83 per day) This means that for every
member the church increases, the world population increases by approx.
250,000 people. Currently there are approx. 6,973,000,000 people in the
world. 150 years ago when John Holdeman started our church, there were only
a little over 1 billion people in the world. Our minds simply fail to grasp
the increase, as well as the number of people who have died during this
time. Let me hear your wisdom on how to fit to this the teaching that we
must bring the gospel to all the world, teaching them to observe all things.
Might have to go with the thought of just blooming where I'm planted!!
More Stats
In 2010 CGCM membership rose 1.3% worldwide. US membership rose .9% while Canada rose .6%. Haiti rose 11.9% while “all others” rose 2.4%. Nearly 1/3 of the increase in membership came from Haiti. It would be interesting to see what percent of growth was children of members and what percent was “from the world” as we term it
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