How will the next worldwide body or society of Christians effect the western church? Jenkin is confident that the western church will be bombarded by a global Christianity. There will be a shift in Christianity southward and into the non-western world. In additional to that he feel that civilization will clash and the nature of Christendom will represent the central justification and organizing force of our society. It will give way to an alliance between church and state using secular mechanisms to implement church policies, and the institutionalization of religious intolerance.as Jenkins says, “considering Christianity as a global reality can make us see the whole religion in a radically new perspective, which is startling and, often, uncomfortable.
