Evangelism

Evangelism is the preaching of the Christian Gospel, or by extension any other form of preaching or proselytizing.

Evangelical sociological modeling

Some evangelical groups plan their conversion strategies using extremely precise sociological modelling of the world's entire population.

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The Joshua Project divides the world's population into ethnic/religious groups which it terms people groups. As of October 5, 2005, it estimated a total of about 16,000 people groups, of which 6,900 were considered unreached (not converted), and that the total number of people in these unreached people groups is about 2.5 billion. http://www.joshuaproject.net/

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Joshua Project - October 5 - 2005

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The group publishes data for all 16,000 of these groups concerning the degree to which a people group is considered to be converted to one of the major world religions. Its modelling includes a parameter called the Joshua Project Progress Scale, which combines different parameters, including, e.g. the percentages of people considered evangelical or adherent to a religion, and parameters estimated by people studying evangelism, such as the Johnstone Church Planting Indicator (CPI) and the IMB-SBC World Evangelization Status Indicator. The scale varies from 1.0 for the least converted people groups to 4.2 for the most converted. http://www.joshuaproject.net/scale.php

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Parameter - Joshua Project Progress Scale

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This data is made available for evangelical groups around the world, such as Pilgrim Mission in Poland, to plan their evangelising priorities. http://www.pielgrzym.net/mission.html

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