How the Church can be Unleashed for the Next Generation

How the Church can be Unleashed
for the Next Generation
DJ Chuang
ReGenerant Network
djchuang.com | regenerant.org

1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050
40.5M
34.5M
28.5M
22.6M
17.3M
11.9M
6.9M
3.5M
1.5M.98M.321M.255M
Asian American Population (Projecte
Asian American Population (projected)

19.4 million
Asian Population, July 2013
4.2 million
Asians of Chinese descent, 2012
h"p://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/06/19/the-‐rise-‐of-‐asian-‐americans/

Chinese
Filipino
Indian
Vietnamese
Korean
Japanese
1,304,286
1,706,822
1,737,433
3,183,063
3,416,840
4,010,114
Population % Christian
Churched Asian Americans
31%
89%
18%
36%
71%
38%
h"p://www.pewforum.org/2012/07/19/asian-‐americans-‐a-‐mosaic-‐of-‐faiths-‐overview/

Ethnic Asian-American Churches
EsAmated
number
of

Ethnic
Asian
Churches

in
the
US
(2009)

7,123
h"p://djchuang.com/2014/many-‐chinese-‐churches-‐usa/

Chinese
Churches,
2009

1,200
Chinese
Churches,
2014

1,679

“Asian
Americans
are
the
highest-‐income,
best-‐
educated
and
fastest-‐growing
racial
group
in
the

U.S,
with
Asians
now
making
up
the
largest
share

of
recent
immigrants.”

–
Pew
Research’s
Rise
of
Asian
Americans,
August
2012

2nd Generation Asian Americans

“Parents assumed that if you just sent
the kids to church through high school,
they’d come out being good Christians.
We all thought our kids would go to
church in college. That was a very naïve
thought.” !
!
Rev. Daniel Lee (1st gen, Global Mission Church, Maryland),
quoted in “Silent Exodus,” Christianity Today, 1996.
“Silent Exodus” of the Second-Generations

Bay Area Chinese Bible Church
1956

Bay Area Chinese Bible Church
2011

Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles
1925

Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles
1997

Interbay Covenant Church (Seattle)
1954

Next-Generation Multi-Asian Churches
h"p://djchuang.com/asian

5 Cries of Asian American Christian Young Adults 
Dr. Timothy Tseng
1.  When will I grow up?
2.  Can I embrace my race?
3.  Am I loved?
4.  Am I being fed at my church?
5.  Am I getting the best value?
h"p://isaacblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/ﬁve-‐cries-‐of-‐asian-‐american-‐chrisAan-‐young-‐adults-‐resource-‐available/

Sarang
Community
Church’s

annual
fund
for
church
planAng

by
2nd
GeneraAon
Koreans
and

other
minoriAes

$50,000

Which Nation Will be the Largest Christian Nation?

Professor Yang, who wrote 'Religion in China: Survival and
Revival under Communist Rule', believes the number of
Christians in China will rise to 160 million by 2025 and 247
million by 2030, just as America's Christian population
appears to be waning.
h"p://www.huﬃngtonpost.com/2014/04/22/china-‐largest-‐chrisAan-‐country_n_5191910.html

Where do Chinese Americans live?
•  Top 5 States: California, New York, Hawaii,
Texas and New Jersey.  
Together these 5 states constitute more then
80% of the Chinese American population with
40% being in California alone.  

•  Top 15 Cities: San Francisco, Honolulu,
Oakland, San Jose, New York City, Plano
(Dallas), Sacramento, Seattle, Boston, San
Diego, Philadelphia, Stockton, Los Angeles,
Portland, Chicago. 

•  Next 5 Cities: Anaheim, Houston, Austin,
Pittsburgh, Riverside.

NAMB
has
developed
this
map
depicAng
108
proposed
Chinese
church
plants
in
32
of
the

largest
ciAes
in
North
America.
In
total
some
4.6
million
Chinese
live
in
the
United
States
and

Canada.
h"p://www.namb.net/nambblog1.aspx?id=12884910592&blogid=8589939695

1.  Perceived alienness
2.  Need to maintain self-reliance
3.  Risk of losing relationships

“… the families of the Chinese
American nonreligious may serve
as bastions of secularism, against
which churches are hard-pressed
to compete. Indeed, in looking at
the top three reasons cited above,
each harken back to the inﬂuence
of the family …”

7 Ways to Unleash
1.  Multiplying fruitful churches
2.  Making next generation leaders
3.  Sending out laborers
4.  Using resources generously
5.  Keeping old and creating new
6.  Discipling all nations
7.  Being local and global

Multiplying Fruitful Churches
And God said to them, “Be fruitful
and multiply and ﬁll the earth and
subdue it, and have dominion over
the ﬁsh of the sea and over the birds
of the heavens and over every living
thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 1:28 (ESV)

Making New Leaders
And what you have heard from me in
the presence of many witnesses
entrust to faithful men who will be
able to teach others also.
2 Timothy 2:2 (ESV)

Sending out Laborers
And he said to them, “The harvest is
plentiful, but the laborers are few.
Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord
of the harvest to send out laborers
into his harvest.
Luke 10:2 (ESV)

Using Resources
For where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also.
Luke 12:34 (ESV)

Everyone to whom much was given,
of him much will be required, and
from him to whom they entrusted
much, they will demand the more.
Luke 12:48 (ESV)

Keeping Old and Creating New
Neither is new wine put into old
wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and
the wine is spilled and the skins are
destroyed. But new wine is put into
fresh wineskins, and so both are
preserved.”
Matthew 9:17 (ESV)

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Discipling All Nations
And Jesus came and said to them, “All
authority in heaven and on earth has
been given to me. Go therefore and
make disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching
them to observe all that I have
commanded you. And behold, I am
with you always, to the end of the
age.”
Matthew 28:18-20 (ESV)

Being Local and Global
But you will receive power when the
Holy Spirit has come upon you, and
you will be my witnesses in
Jerusalem and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the end of the
earth.”
Acts 1:8 (ESV)

7 Questions for Your Church
1.  How many churches planted?
2.  How many next generation
leaders?
3.  How many laborers sent out?
4.  How much resources are used?
5.  What is old and what is new?
6.  Which nations are you reaching?
7.  Where are you local? And global?

Christianity Today’s Cover Story"
October 2014

“It takes all kinds of churches 
to reach all kinds of people.” 
Pastor Rick Warren"
Saddleback Church

DJ Chuang
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