The Chinese Bible Gap
I was struck by the figures in a fundraising brochure from Bible League Australia that hit my desk the other day. It showed that there is a growing gap between the number of Christians in China and the number of Bibles available to them. This is the diagram:
That is, in the space of 17 years, the number of Christians trying to live out their Christian lives in often difficult circumstances without access to their own copy of God's word has grown from around 30 million to around 50 million in China, even though some 25 million Bibles have been made available in that time through organisations like the Bible League, the Bible Society, and others. I understand that the same sort of growing Bible gap is also occurring in Africa.
It is certainly time Western Christians started putting more resources into this serious problem.