Been reading Desiring God (pg 190 my edition), and I came across the statistics that so shocked me when I first read them. They are current as of 2002.
• The global income of church members is $12.3 trillion ($12,300 billion)
• Of this, $213 billion (1.73%) is given to Christian causes
• Of this, $11.4 billion (5.4% of 1.73%) goes to foreign missions
• Of this, 87% goes to those who are already Christians, and 12% to already evangelised non-Christians
• 1% of 5.4% of 1.73% - just $114 million – goes to the unreached.
Current stats are available at missionfrontiers.org
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