I am a “ numbers guy ” who “ loves facts .” Amazon delivered “ The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2021 ” to my back porch on Saturday, so you can probably guess how happy that made me. One of the first sections I always visit is the religion section. When I added the new information to what I already knew, this is what I visualized in my mind. 30 CE (Globally) One Jesus with One Group of Followers. 1970 (Globally) 1,130,000,000 Christians & 18,630 denominations/paradenominations. 2000 (Globally) 1,888,000,000 Christians & 33,820 denominations/paradenominations. 2020 (Globally) 2,545,579,000 Christians & 40,000 denominations/paradenominations. Next, I checked the number of Christians in America as we prepare to enter 2021. 245,264,000 (73.5% of the Total Population) As I focused on the trends above, a seemingly crazy question popped into my mind: What would happen if Christians found ways to work together? And then another question popped into m
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