Africans. If God allows the Africans to impact his church to that extent, he must value them highly. According to the World Christian Encyclopedia (Barrett 1982:3), in the year 1900 the total population of the world was 34.4 per cent Christian, and in the year 2000 the world’s Christian population had fallen to 32.3 per cent. Yet, according to Johnstone and Mandryk (2001:21), during that same century the percentage of Christians in all of Africa increased from 10 per cent to 48.4 per
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