DISCIPLING THE NATIONS- 2016

God’s strategy of Pushing back the darkness and transforming nations.

A global survey by Adherents.com shows that there 2.2 Billion Christians in the world which
is 32% of the world Population.

In Kenya 82.6% profess to be Christians. In raw numbers, then, Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity is the fastest growing phenomenon in world religious history.

But perhaps the most astonishing numbers in the survey involve Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians. There were 981,000 of these souls in 1900; there are 643,661,000 of them today; and there are projected to be over one billion Charismatics and Pentecostals in 2050.

In 2015 the World Economic Forum noted that among the ten biggest issues that will impact on the global economy in the near future included:
       i. Worsening income inequality - In developed and developing countries alike, the poorest half of the population often controls less than 10% of its wealth. We see moral break down and disintegration of families.
      ii. On-going unemployment - persistent unemployment growth. Gun violence is on the rise in the USA.
     iii. Rising geostrategic competition - Geopolitics (and realpolitik) is once again taking centre stage. E.g. the Ukraine, Somalia and Syria crises; the stand-off between Russia and the West as well as Brexit.
    iv.  Weakening of representative democracy – Mechanisms are in place for systems to be more democratic than ever, yet there is a disconnect between citizens and the officials who represent them;
     v.  Rising pollution in developing world - Air pollution in China contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in 2010, representing a loss of 25 million years’ of healthy life;
    vi. Increasing water stress – this is due to a combination of problems, including rapid population growth, constrained water supplies and high levels of poverty. Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to be the most affected region, closely followed by Asia.
   vii. Growing importance of health in the economy - There’s a well-understood correlation that as the economy of a country improves, so does the health of its citizens. However, even with economic growth we have seen more diseases such as Zika in the Americas and HIV AIDS pandemic in Africa.

Didn’t God say ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it”? (Gen.1:28).
Why has the church not made significant impact in our nations?
Why is Africa leading in corruption despite the big revival movement on the continent?
Why do nations experience revival and after a few years slide back to deeper darkness?

The Lord has SPOKEN to us his strategy of pushing back the darkness and bringing transformation. It is in making disciples of all Nations or simply put: Discipling Nations!

In this year’s Summit God has brought us his choice servants to bring us to a greater understanding of how we can disciple our neighborhoods, cities, nations.