8 Encouraging Trends in Global Christianity for 2024 - Lifeway Research

There are more Christians on earth right now than ever before. Paul was right: “This same Good News that came to you is going out all over the world. It is changing lives everywhere, just as it changed yours.”9

One difference that continues to animate the dynamics of many regions is religion. No religion claims a majority of the world’s people. Nearly a third of the world’s population, or 2.3 billion people, are Christians, while close to a quarter of humanity, 1.8 billion people, are Muslims. Just over 1 billion are Hindus, nearly 500 million are Buddhis

We also see increased innovation in the way these early Christians shared the gospel.

Christianity is good for two reasons. First, because it is true, and being rightly related to reality is a good thing. Second, Christianity is good for the world because you get Jesus, and when you get Jesus you get everything.

globally atheism is in slow, possibly terminal, decline. Rather, it is religious world views like Christianity and Islam, which between them account for almost two thirds of the world’s population, that will shape the lives of individuals and societies in the twenty-first century.

the Average Christian is informed more by CNN and end-time novels than by what the Word actually says. But according to the facts and the Lord’s Word, we are winning and will continue to do so until every enemy of Christ has been made His footstool.