[Linux4christians] OT: Fastest growing faith on planet is NOT what you think!

Tue May 29 23:07:06 EDT 2012

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Fastest-growing faith on planet
is not what you think!
/Learn about the spiritual 'Megashift' taking place in the world today/
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"This book is one of the most popular titles ever in the WND 
Superstore," said Joseph Farah, founder of WND. "In fact, it has been so 
big for so long that we got permission from the author to reprint it and 
make it available exclusively at WND."

<http://alerts.worldnetdaily.com/HS?a=ENX7Cqk-Y_Aw8SA9MKJYK6_nGHxKLo-ixfcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_Hhe-ud1Id>If 
you have not already heard about the biggest religious movement in over 
1500 years, you will - very soon.

It's the fastest-growing faith on the planet.

And it's not Islam.

Millions of miracles and an explosion of small, Spirit-powered churches 
are heralding this "Megashift" 
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in Christianity, which has been described as a "vast, cleansing storm" 
coming to American from abroad.

This biblically-inspired, evangelical Christianity is sweeping through 
places like China, Africa, India and Southeast Asia -- making it, by 
far, the fastest growing faith on the planet.

In "Megashift," 
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author Jim Rutz coins a new phrase to define this fast-growing segment 
of the population. He calls them "core apostolics" -- or "the new saints 
who are at the heart of the mushrooming kingdom of God."

*[The classic bestseller "Megashift" has just been republished and is 
now available from WND Books. Click here to order your copy today! 
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Rutz makes the point that Christianity is overlooked as the 
fastest-growing faith in the world because most surveys look at the 
traditional Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church while 
ignoring Christian believers who have no part of either.

He says there are 707 million "switched-on disciples" who fit into this 
new category and that this "church" is exploding in growth.

"The growing core of Christianity crosses theological lines and includes 
707 million born-again people who are increasing by 8 percent a year," 
he says.

So fast is this group growing that, under current trends, according to 
Rutz, the entire world will be composed of such believers by the year 2032.

"There will be pockets of resistance and unforeseen breakthroughs," 
writes Rutz in "Megashift" 
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"Still, at the rate we're growing now, to be comically precise, there 
would be more Christians than people by the autumn of 2032, about 8.2 
billion."

<http://alerts.worldnetdaily.com/HS?a=ENX7Cqk-Y_Aw8SA9MKJYK6_nGHxKLo-i3vcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_Hhe-ud1Im>According 
to the author, until 1960, Western evangelicals outnumbered non-Western 
evangelicals -- mostly Latinos, blacks and Asians -- by two to one. As 
of 2000, non-Western evangelicals outnumbered Westerners by four to one. 
That moved to seven to one this year.

"There are now more missionaries sent from non-Western nations than 
Western nations," he writes.

This trend, says Rutz, has been missed by Westerners because the 
explosive growth is elsewhere.

Hundreds of millions of these Christians are simply not associated with 
the institutional churches at all. They meet in homes. They meet 
underground. They meet in caves. They meet, he says, in secret.

And what is driving this movement?

Miracles, he says.

"Megashift" 
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to document myriad healings and other powerful answers to the sincere 
prayers of this new category of believer, including, believe it or not, 
hundreds of dramatic cases of resurrections -- not near-death 
experiences, but real resurrections of actual corpses.

"When I was a kid in Sunday school, I was really impressed that 3,000 
people were saved on the Day of Pentecost," he writes. "I thought, 'Wow, 
that'll never happen again!'"

But, Rutz says, it now happens around the globe every 25 minutes.

"By tomorrow, there will be 175,000 more Christians than there are 
today," he writes.

The essence of "Megashift" 
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is about how Western Christians can tap into what he sees as a mighty 
work of God on Earth.

"Very few people realize the nature of life on Earth is going through a 
major change," he writes. "We are seeing a megashift in the basic 
direction of human history. Until our time, the ancient war between good 
and evil was hardly better than a stalemate. Now all has changed. The 
Creator whose epic story flows through the pages of Scripture has begun 
to dissolve the strongholds of evil. This new drama is being played out 
every hour around the globe, accompanied sometimes by mind-bending 
miracles."

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-- 
I can assure you that that there is something that can enhance your life
if you follow the principles taught and FORGET that they are attached to
a Religion.

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