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Session 6: Mobilizing American Cities for Church Planting Movements 107

e. The diversity of America is indicative of the same kind of diversity in the most unreached places on earth, i.e., the 10/40 Window.

3. This neglect is not a conspiracy against urban America: As of 2000, 419,000 Christian workers are serving God outside of their home countries (this number includes missionaries of all traditions, Catholic, Orthodox, Prot estant, Anglican, independent, and marginal Christian). The U.S. is the largest mission sending and receiving country on earth, sending 118,200 missionaries to other countries and received 33,200.

4. Most workers go to the least needy fields, though over 60% of all people live in cities.

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The real, demonstrated sending priorities apparently emphasize helping Christians become better Christians rather than helping non-Christians consider Christ–or helping Christians of one kind (essentially Catholic or Orthodox) become Christians of another kind (evangelical or Catholic or charismatic, and so on) rather than helping those who have not heard the gospel to hear it.

~ Michael Jaffarian. “The Statistical State of the Missionary Enterprise.” Missiology: An International Review . Vol. XXX. No. 1, January 2002, p. 28.

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5. Rise of spiritualism, relativism, secularism, and new age religions in American popular culture

B. Urban America’s radical diversity is directly connected to racial, cultural, and ethnic suspicion, conflict.

1. Dramatic population growth in the world: Over six billion people; in 1900 there were only about 1.6 billion, and as recently as 1970, only 3.7 billion. Almost four