Is the 10/40 window term used by Christian missionaries sort of quaint and grossly oversimplified?

[bartmac123]

Is the 10/40 window term used by Christian missionaries to loosely define areas of the world with "highest level of socioeconomic challenges and least access to the Christian message and Christian resources on the planet" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10/40_window ) , and thus areas that need missionaries sort of quaint and grossly oversimplified?

Apart from the glaring error of the 10/40 window Not including the
nation with the highest population of Muslims which is Indonesia, it also
does Not include very poor Central American and some South American
nations.
Furthermore, the computer internet technology advancements that
started around 1995 has led to smartphones, and rapid growth of the
internet so a lot of poor nations even have access to the internet.
Finally, it really is a gross oversimplification because a lot of
European nations that are Culturally Christian like France, Sweden,
Germany, Norway, Denmark, Eastern European nations,etc., have a lot of
nominal Christians and atheists but said nations are Not in the 10/40
window.

Could someone please provide their opinions on said topic?

 

Edited January 30, 2023 by bartmac123

[Who me]

On 1/29/2023 at 9:29 PM, bartmac123 said:

Could someone please provide their opinions on said topic?

try:-

https://goaim.org/10-40-window#:~:text=The 10%2F40 Window is,have multiple languages and dialects.

The 10/40 Window, which embraces nearly 70 countries, is a challenging region. Predominant religions include Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. There’s a large nonreligious block too.

The 10/40 Window is located between 10 degrees and 40 degrees north latitude. The term was coined by Christian missionary strategist Luis Bush in 1990 to help identify the area of the world least reached by the gospel story.

 

It is not a modern term and as you point out isn't entirely accurate, but it is a catchy descriptive term.

[AnOrangeCat]

I don't personally have a problem with the term. While certainly not 100% accurate and there are some potentially subjective elements to it, it seems to work fine as a generalization.

[Neighbor]

On 1/29/2023 at 4:29 PM, bartmac123 said:

used by Christian missionaries

Who is stating Christian missionaries actually use this as a guide instead of serving our Lord wherever they might be led to do so, including just down the lane where one lives?

The few missionaries  that I know tend to serve wherever they are, and to go wherever led by the Holy Spirit when led. Those that I am aware of work to develop local leadership from whatever the local culture might be, doing so in the USA,  France, Italy,  Papua New Guinea, Benin, China, Iran, all sorts of places.

Eventually the Spirit does raise up local individuals to be trained, and they too share of the word of God learning to share word by word.