Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Is Japan Really Unreached?
Japan has Toyota, Sony and McDonald's. Surely it has Jesus, right?
Wrong.
Is Japan really an unreached country? Could such an advanced, rich country truly be unreached?
The short answer, yes. In fact, Japan was only recently passed as the largest unreached people group in the world. (It is now #2.) In the scale below, Japan is rated as a 1.2.  Please pray for us and for Japan.
Stage
Level
Level Description
Unreached / Least-Reached
Less than 2% Evangelicals and
Less than 5% Christian Adherents
Very few, if any, known Evangelicals.
Professing Christians less than or equal to 5%.
Evangelicals greater than 0.01%, but less than or equal to 2%.
Professing Christians less than or equal to 5%.
Formative / Nominal Church
Less than 2% Evangelicals and
Greater than 5% Christian Adherents
Very few, if any, known Evangelicals.
Professing Christians greater than 5%.
Evangelicals greater than 0.01%, but less than or equal to 2%.
Professing Christians greater than 5%.
Significant / Established Church
Greater than 2% Evangelicals
Evangelicals greater than 2%, but less than or equal to 5%.
Evangelicals greater than 5%.

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