{"id":125,"date":"2019-04-23T17:28:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T00:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/?p=125"},"modified":"2019-04-23T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T00:28:58","slug":"what-christians-need-to-know-about-the-global-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/2019\/04\/23\/what-christians-need-to-know-about-the-global-church\/","title":{"rendered":"What Christians Need to Know About the Global Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did you know that 2018 marked the first year that Africa\nhad the largest population of Christians in the world? In 1910, only 18% of\nChristians lived in the global South (Africa, Latin America, Asia, and\nOceania). In 2018, however, 66% of Christians lived in the global South. The\nnew center of gravity lies in Africa, Latin America, and Asia with the largest\nChristian communities now residing in the global South. Christianity is not a\nwestern religion, but a global movement of God&#8217;s mission! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My typical day in Bangalore, India, in July 2006 looked\nlike this: after having an individual devotional time in the morning, a group\nof missionaries\u2014 consisting of Indians, Europeans, Americans, Latin Americans,\nand myself\u2014 had breakfast together, giving grace in native Hindi language. We\nwent on street evangelism or were engaged in orphanage ministry during the day;\nin the evening we had spirit-filled worship and prayed for one another. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was difficult to define who the missionaries were\nsince all of us were ministering to each other and learning from different\ncultures. What I lacked as a Korean Christian was complemented by my fellow\nIndian brother and vice versa. That is the beauty of the global church\u2014our God\nis the Creator of the entire universe, and he is the King of all nations, all\ntribes, all tongues, and all people groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For God to receive all the glory he rightly deserves, the global church must be engaged in God&#8217;s mission. As Emil Brunner once said, the church exists by God&#8217;s mission, just as a fire exists by burning. The very nature of the church is to be missional since we love and serve a missionary God whose love always reaches outward!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marketing.calbaptist.edu\/faculty_directory\/ProfileImages\/Chung_Soojin.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>Dr. Soojin Chung<br><em>Assistant Professor of Intercultural Studies<br>Director of Intercultural Studies<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that 2018 marked the first year that Africa had the largest population of Christians in the world? In 1910, only 18% of Christians lived in the global South (Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Oceania). In 2018, however, 66% of Christians lived in the global South. The new center of gravity lies in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}