Progress compared to 1900
CHRISTIANITY
Factoid: Compared to 1900, today we: - have nine times more churches; - distribute almost eleven times more Bibles; - have five times more vocational Christian workers; - have nearly seven times more missionaries; - have one hundred and sixty times more Christian books; - spend thirty-six times more hours evangelizing; - have cut the proportion of unevangelized people in the world in half; - are broadcasting the Great Good News of Jesus Christ via television, radio, and the Internet, and the media to every city, county, country, and continent; and - are seeing our young people poised to do a dramatically better job in reaching the world than we have done.
Source: (Caldwell, Kirbyjon & Walt Callestad. Entrepreneurial Faith. Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 2004. pp. 130-131.)