In fact, it may mean something quite different. They wanted to learn why the messages of these movements seemed so compelling while the true Gospel was so often misunderstood or even disregarded. Researchers came up with answers from which we have learned much and from which we still have much to learn. We have learned, for example, something about the impact of the Japanese method of decision-making on evangelism, church planting and church growth. In Nichirenism Christianity barely holds its own in contemporary Japan.
Conciliar denominations are stagnant or dying.
Evangelicals grow very slowly. Revival is not in evidence. Certainly all Bible- believing Christians hope for it. Many actively pray for it. Some even predict it.