God sized dream for God sized Asia
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What does it look like when we say we need to have God sized dreams. The great commission was to go and make disciples of all nations. The message of the gospel itself is the authentic power of the Gospel. When we understand the word "ethonos" or linguistic people groups they are around 16 thousands of them in the world. According to Joshua's project there are over four thousand unreached people groups in the world. The word of God says: and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations (ethnos), and then the end will come. Matt: 24:14.
When we refer to the unreached people we are talking about nearly 2 billion people, the 28% of the world's population where there is no indigenous community of believing christians available to reach their own people group. Over four thousand ethnic groups are still unreached and less than 4% of 420 thousand missionaries are working among those people group. Out of 4000 unreached ethnos nearly 2000 of them are located in India. If we follow the directives of Jesus we will have a different outlook about mission, investment of our resources and reaching the unreached.
The Gospel of the kingdom is different from the social gospel, motivational gospel, gospel of conformity, historic gospel, gospel of peace etc. It is the gospel of the grace of God free for all who believes. How will some one believe if they have not received a single chance to hear it. I often say we don't have the privilege to hear the gospel of grace twice while a people group has no chance of hearing the gospel once. It is from this same people group the word had real meaning such as outcaste, discrimination, exploitation etc.
When we deal with the vision of God there are many distinctive characters involved. When God deals with you: It is greater and bigger than you can imagine. It is impossible without faith and trust in God. It is God's work and you are participants along with God in what He is doing. It is sacrificial and always required to offer your life. The visionaries are people always live out of box, not meeting others expectations, there is no boundaries for them, they inspire others because often they are inspired themselves.
My recent conversation with an American girl who married an Indian professor who works in a reputed college with Phd in pharmacology said her experience of how India treated her. Personal witness of corruption, bribe by police officers, lack of practice of traffic rules, lack of hygene, lack of public infrastructure, lack of logical sense in the worship of god etc. It takes someone's lifetime to penetrate with the gospel to these unreached ethnos. Native missionaries are the only option to reach those people.
If interested, please get in touch with me and I would appreciate to discuss about the native missionaries and their impact in church planting and reaching the unreached ethnos.
Blessings
Binu Peniel (c) 2016.
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