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Just as it looks like Christianity is on the downslide in the industrialized nations it springs up all over the southern hemisphere.

"In 1900, 80 percent of the world's Christians lived in Europe and North America. Today, more than 60 percent of the world's Christians live outside those lands. While only about one million of the 28 million baptized Anglicans in Britain go to church on a Sunday, Nigeria's 18 million Anglicans pack their houses of worship to overflowing. Christianity in the United States seems to be holding its own, but largely because of its revitalization by recent immigrants. As the demographic center of Christian adherence and vitality continues to shift southward, Jenkins argues further, it will be only natural for the views from the South to gain weight. Voices and perspectives from Europe, Christianity's declining northern margin, will seem less authoritative."

People in Asia, Africa and South America are discovering and agreeing with the bible. Apparently a lot of these cultures can identify even with the Old Testament because a lot are agricultural communities they can understand the farming/sowing type parables better than urbanized countries. The bible's message is continuing to resonate with the poor throughout the world.

The article starts out claiming that the bible is driving the largest religious change in history.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2007/003/7.22.html

It'll be interesting to see the new and diverse ways in which they interpret the Gospel for themselves.