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State of Evangelism Today Since 1990 the Church in the U.S. is experiencing a
significant decline, Facts  There are an estimated 190 million
non-Christians1, which would equal the 4th largest nation
in the world2 85% of all evangelical churches have
"evangelism" in their mission statement Less than 5% of
Christians in a typical church are personally involved in
evangelism3 A typical church spends less than 2%
of their budget on local evangelism4 Only 9% of
pastors and 2% of lay people say they are gifted, and most do
not feel adequately trained in
evangelism51 George Barna, Re-Churching The
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while the population is growing rapidly. This creates a
large and growing gap.