Visit ‘The Unfinished Task’ link above. The figures change at an alarming rate – every 30 seconds another 43 people are born into people groups who currently have no access to the gospel. Eighty-six people per minute! The mathematics is frightening. Peoples in danger – in danger of living and dying without Christ, endangered because they haven’t even had a chance to hear. Frightening but not hopeless.
I think of Nazma and Rozi, Sudha's husband and Ruksana’s
eldest brother. And little Anjali and the rapidly growing Nargiz. I want
to hang out with them forever! I want them there, worshipping Jesus with
us. And worshipping Jesus now.
If it is true that Jesus is the one and only God, the only
one worthy of being worshipped, if He is with us, giving us all authority to
bring salvation to everyone who will believe, then what in the world are we
doing about those who have never even heard of him?
“There can be no weary resignation, no cowardly retreat, and
no merciless contentment among Christ’s people while he is disowned among
thousands of unreached peoples. Every Christian (who loves people and
honours Christ) must care about this.” John Piper.
He goes onto say, “any good-hearted goal, without the desire
to give people eternal joy in God, is condemnation with a kind face.”
Because if they don’t hear they are condemned, kind face or
not, they are in danger.
The call has been given, the gauntlet thrown down.
Will we, the Church of Jesus Christ, rise up for the most endangered of the
world?
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