What have you been up to lately? I've been looking forward to us getting a brand new follow up tool for our Global Media Outreach missionaries (it's called Path and they are in the final testing of it now). Also been fighting off a flu or something this week.
What's beyond cool: Our church had 676 people come to Jesus in the last couple weeks (..of course each were one was brought to church here). Decisions to repent, to pray and to receive Jesus by faith (and 808 Start Bibles were given to them, lots of baptisms too. Yay!Love it.. Him! All praise and glory to God.
What's greater than that happening here? Nothing!
Choose to be humble, faithful, and word-full. Proclamation of God's truth always follows the empowering of the Holy Spirit (see Acts 1:8-11 and context). This passage tells us to go tell--get to work in the will on God. He came to seek and to save the lost, and He sends us.
There are approximately 7000 (6860 at last count) known languages in the world.
It is so imperative..yes, essential that people connect with the Living Word of God in their own heart language ..for real encounter and regeneration / transformation to occur (John 3:3).
“Without the Bible, world evangelization would not only be impossible, but actually inconceivable.” ~ John Stott
Jesus said: "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31b-32
The full Bible is available now in 531 different languages, giving 4,924 million people access to Scripture in the language they understand best. The New Testament is available in another 1,329 languages, reaching another 634 million people. At least one book of the Bible is available in a further 1,023 other languages, spoken by 243 million people.
Why need we be done with time-wasting lesser things? Currently there are still 6,700 unreached people groups (literate and illiterate). The total number of people groups is over 16,000.
Over 40% of the people groups of this world are listed as unreached. And about 42% of the population of the world lives among unreached people groups. Have you yet heard.. really heard.. His Message and responded? Hear now.
Among all the needy peeps living... God also wants to reach the non-readers of this world – that's over 5.7 billion people.
A lot of missions work has been aimed at the literate world, only 1/3 of the earth’s population. The remaining 2/3 have only recently being focused on.
Oral learning cultures are highly relational and stories, songs, chants, poems, proverbs, dramas and dances are the way they can hear the Good News of the Gospel. Facebook.com/shareJesus
