| “This book is one of the most popular titles ever,” said Joseph Farah. “In fact, it has been so big for so long that we got permission from the author to reprint it and make it available exclusively at WND.”
 If you have not already heard about the biggest religious movement in over 1500 years, you will – very soon.
It’s the fastest-growing faith on the planet.
And it’s not Islam.
Millions of miracles and an explosion of small, Spirit-powered churches are heralding this “Megashift” in Christianity, which has been described as a “vast, cleansing storm” coming to American from abroad.
This biblically-inspired, evangelical Christianity is sweeping through places like China, Africa, India and Southeast Asia – making it, by far, the fastest growing faith on the planet.
In “Megashift,” author Jim Rutz coins a new phrase to define this fast-growing segment of the population. He calls them “core apostolics” – or “the new saints who are at the heart of the mushrooming kingdom of God.”
Rutz makes the point that Christianity is overlooked as the fastest-growing faith in the world because most surveys look at the traditional Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church while ignoring Christian believers who have no part of either.
He says there are 707 million “switched-on disciples” who fit into this new category and that this “church” is exploding in growth.
“The growing core of Christianity crosses theological lines and includes 707 million born-again people who are increasing by 8 percent a year,” he says.
So fast is this group growing that, under current trends, according to Rutz, the entire world will be composed of such believers by the year 2032.
“There will be pockets of resistance and unforeseen breakthroughs,” writes Rutz in “Megashift”. “Still, at the rate we’re growing now, to be comically precise, there would be more Christians than people by the autumn of 2032, about 8.2 billion.”
 According to the author, until 1960, Western evangelicals outnumbered non-Western evangelicals – mostly Latinos, blacks and Asians – by two to one. As of 2000, non-Western evangelicals outnumbered Westerners by four to one. That moved to seven to one this year.
“There are now more missionaries sent from non-Western nations than Western nations,” he writes.
This trend, says Rutz, has been missed by Westerners because the explosive growth is elsewhere.
Hundreds of millions of these Christians are simply not associated with the institutional churches at all. They meet in homes. They meet underground. They meet in caves. They meet, he says, in secret.
And what is driving this movement?
Miracles, he says.
“Megashift” attempts to document myriad healings and other powerful answers to the sincere prayers of this new category of believer, including, believe it or not, hundreds of dramatic cases of resurrections – not near-death experiences, but real resurrections of actual corpses. To be aware and to beware of this movement of Miracles being brought froth.
“When I was a kid in Sunday school, I was really impressed that 3,000 people were saved on the Day of Pentecost,” he writes. “I thought, ‘Wow, that’ll never happen again!'”
But, Rutz says, it now happens around the globe every 25 minutes.
“By tomorrow, there will be 175,000 more Christians than there are today,” he writes.
The essence of “Megashift” is about how Western Christians can tap into what he sees as a mighty work of God on Earth.
“Very few people realize the nature of life on Earth is going through a major change,” he writes. “We are seeing a megashift in the basic direction of human history. Until our time, the ancient war between good and evil was hardly better than a stalemate. Now all has changed. The Creator whose epic story flows through the pages of Scripture has begun to dissolve the strongholds of evil. This new drama is being played out every hour around the globe, accompanied sometimes by mind-bending miracles.”
Discover a new world where…
Over a billion non-Christians may become highly active Christians in the next dozen years. A whole new form of Christianity promises to bring a far greater impact than the Protestant Reformation.
Millions of ordinary people are doing miracles. Which gods or is it GOD, who has brought hundreds of people back from the dead, mostly in the last 15 years. These are not near-death experiences, but real resurrections of actual corpses.
A shift from spectator religion
“Megashift” not only documents a wide range of miracles, but also spotlights hundreds of thousands of house-church teams around the globe that are producing a new culture of responsible freedom.
In these teams, people are allowed to speak and interact. They often form deep friendships, dump their heaviest problems, turn into free and powerful spearheads of worldwide change, and get connected with God or gods and man in ways that almost defy description. This is a “Megashift” away from spectator religion.
8% Growth Per Year
There is a hidden world that already has 707 million evangelical/charismatic Christians who are growing by an incredible 8% a year.
In the center of this shockwave are roughly 100 million informal networks of committed circles who run their own show without buildings, paid pastors, or sermons. “Megashift” is a startling introduction to that surge of grass roots power and love, which is forming the culture you will soon live in.
Sample Chapter titles include:
1.) The New Kingdom Explosion: “Exciting miracles and church growth.” Rutz tells how the kingdom of God is expanding or gods that Satan has put upon earth to “fool” people exponentially!
2.) The New Engines of Change: “10 Rediscovered Forces Behind it all.” This exciting chapter shows how God is pouring His power into new believers and what brought about this radical change. Beware if false gods, looks like the “real thing” but not.
3.) The New Saints: “ 7 Signs of Today’s Overcomers.” A new kind of disciple is breaking away from the sidelines of Christianity–one who is liberated, proactive, and empowered.
4.) The New Church: “30 Hallmarks of Emerging, Scripture-based Congregations.” Today churches all over are going back to a biblical basis. Rutz illuminates what defines these churches and explains their unique characteristics.
Finally, here is a positive book focusing not on the depravity and hopelessness of the world, but highlighting the change that Christians are making worldwide. This book will boost every Christian’s confidence and motivate all to get off the sidelines and participate in the work of Christ. OR it will show how Satan is out to fool people and to all be aware of what the Word of God says, not what man says. Must study His Word to know the difference in any religion. |
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