The Shaking of Nations - A Harvest Tsunami Is On Its Way....

Five Billion to Go!

As impressive as the data is in how fast and wide the church

has grown in the last two thousand years, it is still failing to keep

up with the rate of world population growth. Between 1985 and

2017 the number of non-Christians in the world rose from 3.2

billion to 5 billion. Of these non-Christians, 2.1 billion still have no access to the gospel message. 26 World population is going

to defeat the Great Commission all on its own if God’s people

do not wake up and focus on how to deal with this spiritual and

strategic problem.

The apostolic ministry must not only look at the way we do

church, but equally important consider the way we are training

church leadership. You may have heard the old adage that

“everything rises and falls on leadership.” This is true. One of

the greatest needs in preparing the church for the harvest wave

is the training of church leadership — with a better biblical

paradigm of the church and the correct finish-line for gospel

ministry.

Over the years I have benefited from attending several

seminaries, and I now teach in a local Bible College. But After

26 Steve Smith, The Beginning of the End? Mission Frontiers; Issue 39:5, September/October, 2017, pg.40