In hearing about peoples’ kingdom experiences, most of us shared the general wall of reluctance /lack of knowledge we hit when broaching the mission’s subject in those churches. Some are offended. Some think missions is money. Some say missions is not for everybody. Some are simply not doing IT. We think it is a good thermometer of adequate kingdom maturity.
Grant showed us a Joshua Project power point presentation looking at world evangelization statistics for reached/unreached ethné and the unfinished task at hand. The bible is currently only fully translated in 450 languages: another 2100 languages needs to be done – add to that a 1000 disappearing languages.
**more Christians are martyred in the 20th century than the combined 19 centuries together **only 1 out of 10 x-cultural foreign missionaries minister among unreached people groups ** for every $1 of Christian giving ½ penny (1/2 of 1c) goes to financing pioneer church planting among unreached peoples
The presentation ends with ‘Every follower of Christ has the responsibility and joy of participating in the Great Commission’. What’s the catch? What has the GC been defined as? Is it based on the kingdom program or the salvation program? Is missions the centrality i.e mission-centered-church or visa versa?
After supper the real journey continued, as always.
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