Tuesday; December 30
I am about to make some very general statements using broad terms, but if you bear with me, I do have a point to make. So, let’s start with a question – where in the world are the most Christians? (Again, I am not going to define or debate the term “Christian” – let’s accept it in general terms.) If you are like me, you probably assume that North America in general and the United States in particular is the epicenter of Christianity. However, that isn’t exactly true. According to the Pew Research Center, there were some 2 billion “Christians” around the world in 2020 (by the way, that’s an increase of almost 6% over 2010). With this in mind, some 237 million of them live in North America. That sounds like a lot, until you realize that about 500 million of them live in Europe, 546 million live in Latin American counties and almost 700 million live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Interestingly, the greatest growth of Christianity between 2010...