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Memo to American Evangelicals

"Why should I care about people halfway around the world who I've never met? They're not related to me, and we're not friends: I don't feel called to love them." Hearing statements like these from my evangelical friends has saddened me on many occasions. Such conversations have made me increasingly aware that evangelicals in America are often not only uninformed, but also unconcerned about the lives of fellow believers in other parts of the world.

According to Philip Jenkins, a leading religious scholar, the majority of the world's Christians now reside in the Global South — regions such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America — and the growth of Christianity in those regions is significantly greater than in America or Europe. [1] Despite this increasingly globalized church, American evangelicals, including myself, often do not comprehend the full diversity of the church. I believe this narrow view can lead to a limited practice of faith and a sense of disunity among brothers and ...

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