DISCLAIMER: This posting and link is fascinating for believers and atheists alike.

I often times link to articles by John Piper, and today I wanted to share one I read yesterday.

Unexpected Blows to Fatalistic Thinking

John Piper explores the writings of Philip Jenkins, of the University of Pennsylvania, and his book The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. It’s a very interesting read into how the ‘location’ of Christianity is changing. For centuries Christianity has found it’s center in Europe and North America, but things are changing and it is widely becoming an African and South American center. Very Interesting idea for sure…

Who would have thought that the most powerful influences for sane doctrinal faithfulness in the global Anglican Communion would come not from the evangelical resurgence of British evangelicals (as wonderful as that is), but from African bishops who regard so-called gay marriage (for example) as the oxymoron that it is?

Who would have thought that thirty or so conservative Episcopalian congregations physically located in North America would now technically be part of the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Rwanda?

Who would have though that there would be twice as many Presbyterians today in South Korea as there are in the United States?

Who would have thought that China would be one of the largest “Christian” nations. In 1949, China had only four million Christians. Today the number stands at about eighty-two million.