Where Have All The Believers Gone?

Here is a question asked by the Guardians’ Andrew Brown.

''Where have all believers gone?''

Perhaps it would be best to identify the term 'believer.'
A believer, from a Christian perspective, is a person that has 'believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour and Redeemer', to the salvation of their immortal soul.

So a believer is a saved person, one that has called on the name of the Lord for forgiveness of sin, and is found a new creature in Christ. As to the question of the apparent decline in numbers, this is always problematic. When persecution or adversity arises against Christians and their principles, quite frequently the head counting starts.

This is precisely what happened in the reign of Ahab and Jezebel in Israel of old. Elijah the prophet found the persecution difficult, and thought within himself, that there were few that served the LORD; but even he was wrong, because the LORD said, ''Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.'' (1Kin19:18)

The number of 'believers' then are known only unto God, man can but offer an estimation, accurate or otherwise.