Friday, September 07, 2007
10/40 Window of Missonary Activies
The Taliban executed two of the Korean hostages because the missionaries would not convert to Islam.
The world is still a dangerous place for those who feel compelled to spread Christianity like the missionaries of old. But one part of the world is the most dangerous yet most "fertile" zone for Christian missionaries. That zone is known as the 10/40 Window.
Comprising ten degrees north to forty degrees north in the Eastern Hemisphere, the 10/40 Window contains three Christian majority countries (Portugal, Greece, Philippines), and a few mixed regions like South Korean South Sudan, Ethiopia, Nagaland. However, the vast majority of the region is Muslim, pagan, or official atheist.
Other factors like 84% lowest quality of life, 82% of the worlds poor, etc create a base population with qualms towards the establishment. Evangelical groups hope to convert many of these inhabitants and see the situation as an opportunity.
However, history has been rough towards Christianity in the window. Nestorians came close to converting Persia and China but they were crushed. Islam destroyed the Christian Middle East and any chance to spread east, and the Jesuits ran until government persecution in efforts to convert China and Japan. Today a militant strand of Islam is actively fighting missionary efforts.
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3 comments:
hmm - seem this window pretty much contain the entire non-christianized part of the world. Which also means the entire muslim world.
And while no one should go around killing people - but trying to spread the word of the gospel in Afghanistan must be one of the stupidest endeavors I can imagine. Unless your goal is to become a martyr.
Stupidest is not a word, that shows lack of intelligence. And I think that the 10 X 40 window is an awesome thing for evangelists, to show them where evangelism is needed the most.
Anonymous,
Stupidest is a word. It means most stupid. Your claim is something you do want to research before you make it.
I do agree with you that the 10/40 window does teach where the gospel is needed to be spread.
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