From China back to Jerusalem

Could 100,000 Chinese Christians complete the evangelization of the globe in our lifetime? Read Mark Earley on "An Army of Worms: Completing the Circuit to Jerusalem." The title of the movement is Back to Jerusalem. Why?

Back to Jerusalem gets its name from the fact that, since Pentecost, the Gospel has primarily spread westward from Jerusalem — first to Europe, then the Americas, then to the Far East. But there is “no firmly established church” among the two billion people in the area from China’s western border back to Christianity’s origination point. So thousands of Chinese Christians sense God nudging them westward to complete the circuit “back to Jerusalem.”

Perhaps Philip Jenkins will see fit to include this effort in a future second edition of The Next Christendom.