Average American Christian: 9 Bibles; Average Third World Pastor: 0

Sunday, 21 December 2008

Average American Christian: 9 Bibles; Average Third World Pastor: 0
Guest post submitted by BereanChristian
Christian Resources International (CRI), a ministry that sends Bibles to needy Christians overseas, is calling on American Christians to "re-gift" new and used Bibles from under their Christmas trees or from their bookshelves and send them overseas.

Christian Resources International is a non-profit organization that provides free Christian literature to converts, missionaries and pastors in many countries. In addition, CRI ships Christian books, Bibles, Sunday School materials, tracts, and more to needy Christians throughout the world.

"Baptisms in Africa outnumber those in Europe, North and South America combined," notes CRI Executive Director Fred Palmerton, "and those choosing to become Christian in Asia do so at a rate five times greater than Africa. Yet, the average pastor in those nations doesn't own a Bible."

Entire villages in third world countries regularly worship without a Bible in hand, they instead rely on scripture written on scraps of paper or memorized passages.

Research indicated that the average American Christian has 9 Bibles; the average Third World Pastor has 0.

Help Christians around the world get the books they desperately need.
Resources Which Pastors Need The Most: (Think in terms of the foundational materials that would most help a pastor study and teach God's word)

    * Bibles

    * Concordances and commentaries

    * Christian reference books

    * Systematic and practical theology books

    * Bible Study materials

Clicking on the picture will take you to their site. God bless!
How many Bibles do you have at home? Could you spare some? This would be a great activity to do with your church.

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for the people who want to know the info in teh blink of an eye, what's their address?
- 12/21/2008 2:53 PM
- ThinkAchieve@xanga (message)
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Also, people can go to www.bibleleague.org and for every $4 donated they send a Bible to someone, usually in Asia or Africa.

And yes, I could spare some.
- 12/21/2008 3:03 PM
- InAweOfCreation@xanga (message)
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This may be out of place but, does anyone else find it wrong or sinful to sell Bibles? I mean, I get the publishing expenses but doesn't it make sense to publish Bibles and give them away instead of putting a price on the Word of G-d? Wouldn't this be less of a problem if publishers decided to ONLY give away Bibles? Then I wouldn't have to sell french speaking pastors my English translated Bible.
- 12/21/2008 3:29 PM
- TheGreatBout@xanga (message)
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@TheGreatBout@xanga - I don't think it's wrong to sell them. Translation, editing, publishing, printing, people who deliver them, people who work in the stores who sell them...all have to get paid. Benevolence is good, but you have to remember all the hands through which they pass.
- 12/21/2008 4:28 PM
- NightCometh@xanga (message)
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9 Bibles is average? Someone must be hoarding thousands and driving up the curve because I don't know any of my "average" friends who have 9 Bibles.
- 12/21/2008 4:29 PM
- NightCometh@xanga (message)
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@NightCometh@xanga - I understand the toil. But here's the thing: it's the Word of G-d. It is free. So why is it not free?
- 12/21/2008 5:11 PM
- TheGreatBout@xanga (message)
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We have a lot of bibles, I know we could spare some...then again, we have 9 people in my family, so we have more than average....
- 12/21/2008 8:41 PM
- Stephanie_J_B@xanga (message)
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Many. Yes!
- 12/22/2008 9:38 AM
- lovelyingenue@xanga (message)
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Why can't the Bible publishing companies donate Bibles to these countries?
- 12/22/2008 9:56 AM
- heart4colombia@xanga (message)
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I have 1 Chinese/English bible, 1 new-translation Chinese bible, 1 easy to carry with zipper bible, and 1 big one with definitions...

So I have 4 :)
- 12/22/2008 12:37 PM
- Tiramizu@xanga (message)
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About Me: As for me and my house we dwell in the the L-rd. If there is one word of advice that I would like to give to anyone it would be..... WE ALL HAVE SINNED AGAINST G-D AND DESERVE DEATH BUT G-D SENT THE MESSIAH TO DIE UPON THE CROSS SO THAT WE WOULD NOT ONLY DIE BUT WE WOULD BE SAVED. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HIM AS YOUR PERSONAL SAVIOR IT IS MY PRAYER THAT G-D TOUCHES YOUR LIFE AND THAT YOU DO GET TO KNOW HIM
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