Posted on Twitter today, and then thought it deserved a minipost:
* Why the world will remain majority non-Christian for a long time: C Births + Converts – Defectors < NonChristian Births
* NonChristian births are 2x Christian births, and we only nett 3 million converts p.a. More babies or more converts?
* The problem is: making converts (or babies) is the fun part. Ahem. But raising them is the challenge fewer seem interested in.
Addendum: if we don’t raise spiritual babies to be mature spiritual adults, we won’t ever increase the spiritual birth rate. The fact that we have 15 million converts p.a. offset by 12 million defectors p.a. tells me a lot about our spiritual birthing process.
It’s as if Christianity is plagued by spiritual infant mortality and a low spiritual lifespan!
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