00:00Global evangelicalism, however defined, is more diverse than you think it is.
00:05And yet we can all find our place in it, no matter what you look like or what you believe,
00:12you can find your place in it.
00:15And I think that's its strength, not its weakness.
00:18So type one evangelicals by denominational affiliation results in 393 million evangelicals.
00:25And this is our starting point for measuring evangelicalism.
00:29But you can see there's our little continent graph there, the colors each representing a different continent.
00:35You can already see that 46% of type one evangelicals are in Africa.
00:40This is not a Western movement anymore.
00:43So type two includes all Pentecostals and Charismatics that weren't already included in type one.
00:50So there's no overlap between the three types.
00:53We're essentially building upon each other, right?
00:55It's been long observed that most Pentecostals identify closely with evangelicalism, especially concerning personal piety, conversion experiences, the importance of
01:07scripture, missions, evangelism.
01:10For example, the Assemblies of God, which is the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world, was a founding member of
01:16the National Association of Evangelicals in my country, the United States.
01:20And it's still, I think, it's largest member.
01:23So if we add the remaining Pentecostals Charismatics, which we're calling type two, we add another 242 million evangelicals.
01:32So in my understanding, I think the widest, the widest definition of evangelicalism could potentially include all mainline or historic
01:41Protestant denominations in the global South, minus Australia and New Zealand, because they more closely resemble trends in Europe and
01:48North America.
01:48Because of a close connection between Protestantism and evangelicalism and included in this are Black churches in the United States
01:57and other kinds of independents.
01:59A lot of Black Protestants look like evangelicals in belief and practice, but often do not self-identify with that
02:06term because of the sociological, historical and political differences that exist between white evangelicals and Black Protestants in the USA.
02:16So we've included Black Protestants in type three wider evangelicalism for the same reasons we are including these Protestants of
02:23the global South, who may, quote, look like evangelicals, but may not use that term specifically.
02:30So this type three, majority world Protestants adds another 302 million evangelicals to the total.
02:39And you can see again, Asia and Africa, 38% of these are Asian because of the Chinese house, the
02:44Chinese churches, both registered and unregistered, which brings us to wider evangelicalism as a whole.
02:51So if you add together type one, type two and type three, you get 937 million evangelicals in the world.
02:59And you can see 47% are African, 26% are Asian, 12% Latin America and 11% North
03:05America.
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