How the Church can be Unleashed for the Next Generation

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40.5M

34.5M

28.5M

22.6M

17.3M

11.9M

6.9M3.5M

1.5M.98M.321M.255M

Asian American Population (Projected)Asian American Population (projected)

19.4 million Asian Population, July 2013

4.2 million Asians of Chinese descent, 2012

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Chinese

Filipino

Indian

Vietnamese

Korean

Japanese1,304,286

1,706,822

1,737,433

3,183,063

3,416,840

4,010,114

Population % Christian

Churched Asian Americans

31%

89%

18%

36%

71%

38%

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Ethnic Asian-American Churches

EsAmated  number  of  Ethnic  Asian  Churches  

in  the  US  (2009)  

7,123

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Chinese  Churches,  2009  

1,200

Chinese  Churches,  2014  

1,679

“Asian  Americans  are  the  highest-­‐income,  best-­‐educated  and  fastest-­‐growing  racial  group  in  the  U.S,  with  Asians  now  making  up  the  largest  share  of  recent  immigrants.”    –  Pew  Research’s  Rise  of  Asian  Americans,  August  2012  

2nd Generation Asian Americans

“Parents assumed that if you just sent the kids to church through high school, they’d come out being good Christians. We all thought our kids would go to church in college. That was a very naïve thought.” !!Rev. Daniel Lee (1st gen, Global Mission Church, Maryland), quoted in “Silent Exodus,” Christianity Today, 1996.

“Silent Exodus” of the Second-Generations

Bay Area Chinese Bible Church

1956  

Bay Area Chinese Bible Church

2011  

Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles

1925  

Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles

1997  

Interbay Covenant Church (Seattle)

1954  

Quest Church (Seattle)

2001  

Quest Church (Seattle)

2007  

Next-Generation Multi-Asian Churches

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5 Cries of Asian American Christian Young AdultsDr. Timothy Tseng

1.  When will I grow up? 2.  Can I embrace my race? 3.  Am I loved? 4.  Am I being fed at my church? 5.  Am I getting the best value?

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Sarang  Community  Church’s  annual  fund  for  church  planAng  by  2nd  GeneraAon  Koreans  and  other  minoriAes  

$50,000

Which Nation Will be the Largest Christian Nation?

Professor Yang, who wrote 'Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule', believes the number of Christians in China will rise to 160 million by 2025 and 247 million by 2030, just as America's Christian population appears to be waning. h"p://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/22/china-­‐largest-­‐chrisAan-­‐country_n_5191910.html  

Chinese Church in China

Where do Chinese Americans live? •  Top 5 States: California, New York, Hawaii,

Texas and New Jersey. Together these 5 states constitute more then 80% of the Chinese American population with 40% being in California alone.

•  Top 15 Cities: San Francisco, Honolulu, Oakland, San Jose, New York City, Plano (Dallas), Sacramento, Seattle, Boston, San Diego, Philadelphia, Stockton, Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago.

•  Next 5 Cities: Anaheim, Houston, Austin, Pittsburgh, Riverside.

NAMB  has  developed  this  map  depicAng  108  proposed  Chinese  church  plants  in  32  of  the  largest  ciAes  in  North  America.  In  total  some  4.6  million  Chinese  live  in  the  United  States  and  Canada.  h"p://www.namb.net/nambblog1.aspx?id=12884910592&blogid=8589939695  

1.  Perceived alienness 2.  Need to maintain self-reliance 3.  Risk of losing relationships “… the families of the Chinese American nonreligious may serve as bastions of secularism, against which churches are hard-pressed to compete. Indeed, in looking at the top three reasons cited above, each harken back to the influence of the family …”

7 Ways to Unleash

1.  Multiplying fruitful churches 2.  Making next generation leaders 3.  Sending out laborers 4.  Using resources generously 5.  Keeping old and creating new 6.  Discipling all nations 7.  Being local and global

Multiplying Fruitful Churches

And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 (ESV)

Making New Leaders

And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. 2 Timothy 2:2 (ESV)

Sending out Laborers

And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Luke 10:2 (ESV)

Using Resources

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Luke 12:34 (ESV) Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more. Luke 12:48 (ESV)

Keeping Old and Creating New

Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.” Matthew 9:17 (ESV)

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Discipling All Nations

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20 (ESV)

Being Local and Global

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8 (ESV)

7 Ways to Unleash

1.  Multiplying fruitful churches 2.  Making next generation leaders 3.  Sending out laborers 4.  Using resources generously 5.  Keeping old and creating new 6.  Discipling all nations 7.  Being local and global

7 Questions for Your Church

1.  How many churches planted? 2.  How many next generation

leaders? 3.  How many laborers sent out? 4.  How much resources are used? 5.  What is old and what is new? 6.  Which nations are you reaching? 7.  Where are you local? And global?

Christianity Today’s Cover Story"October 2014

“It takes all kinds of churchesto reach all kinds of people.”

Pastor Rick Warren"Saddleback Church

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