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Opportunities and Challenges of Bi- vocational Missionaries 帶職宣教士的挑戰和机遇 CMC South 2015 – Houston TX Today’s Unprecedented Opportunities And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this? (Esther 4:14) 焉知你得了王后的位分、不是為現今的機 會麼？ (以斯帖記4:14) Today’s Unprecedented Opportunities And who knows but that you have come to be a professional for such a time as this? 焉知你得了「專業」的位分、不是為現今 「宣教」的機會麼？ 1 - World evangelism cannot be accomplished by traditional missionaries alone 傳統宣教士不能完成普世宣教的目標 •Increase in world population 世界人口的增長 •Ratio of unreached people to traditional missionaries 未得 之民與傳统宣教士的比率 •Need to increase number of missionaries by an order of magnitude 宣教士的人數需要倍增 World’s non-Christian population and Protestant missionary workface 世界的非基督徒人口和基督徒宣教士的比率 World’s non-Christian Ratio of Population to Missionary population = 4.6 billion 120,000 Total number of 100,000 Protestant missionaries= 80,000 201,000* 60,000 40,000 Ratio of non-Christian 20,000 pop/missionary = 23,000 0 M uslim Buddhist Hindu Chinese Non- religions religious * Excludes Mainland China Raising bi-vocational missionaries is the most effective way to drastically increase the missionary workforce 要倍增宣教士的人數，徵召帶職宣教士是最有效的途徑 •To reduce the ratio of Non-Christian to Protestant missionary from 23,000 to 5,000 we need 700,000 more missionaries. 我們需要徵召七十萬的新宣教士，才能將非基督徒 對宣教士的比率從二萬降到五千。 •This goal c