The greatest threat to evangelical Christianity is not Islam, but rather secularism, consumerism and pop culture, a new study has found. In a survey of nearly 2,200 evangelical leaders from 166 countries, 71% identified the influence of secularism as a 'major threat' to evangelical Christianity. This was followed by consumerism (67%), and sex and violence in pop culture (59%). Only 47% of evangelicals identified the influence of Islam as a major threat. The survey, by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life, also found that evangelicals in the Global South are more optimistic about the future of evangelicalism than their brothers and sisters in the Global North. While seven in ten evangelical Protestant leaders (71%) living in the Global South expected the state of evangelicalism in their countries to be better in five years than it is today, in the Global North evangelical Protestant leaders expected the situation to either be the same (21%) or get worse (33%).

Pray: that God would be our protector against the enemies of His church and people. (Ps.60:11)

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