Spend at few minutes at http://joshuaproject.net/ – then spend a few minutes pondering the implications of this information.
What shall we do about this?
What must we do about this?
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Our responsibility is to disciple all people groups, both those near us and those at the other end of the world. We personally can’t reach everyone, but we need as a church to focus on how we fulfill Christ’s words in Acts 1. What is our Jerusalem, our Judea, our Samaria, and our ends of the earth? Whenever the church focuses on one area to the exclusion of the others, the worldwide Body of Christ suffers.
The Joshua Project does a great job of providing information to educate us on who IS unreached, and where they live. Operation World does this too (http://www.operationworld.org). Signing up for a daily prayer note is a good way to expand our world. Paul Borthwick, a mission leader in Boston suggests we start by praying for the countries where our clothes are made as we dress in the morning! He calls it “the prayer closet…”
Sometimes we find that some of those least reached people are living among us right here in Canton!
The Prayer Closet..I love that idea!
I’ve really been inspired by some people I’ve been reading about lately who give their lives going to the unreached places of the world, which are often hostile and very hard to locate.