You can find all the episodes on LifeAudio.com. the gospel that you heard, the proclaimed one in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister., So the solution is that Paul is not saying anything about when the gospel is proclaimed in all creation. Sorry, you are unable to subscribe at this time. About three million people live in some of the hardest to reach, isolated places on the planet that are far from any Christian influence. (Joshua Project) 70,000+ people die everyday in the unreached world without Jesus. In Paul's words in Romans 1:14, we owe the gospel to those who have not heard it. Voice of the Martyrs (the ministry that created the map) lists the Philippines as dangerous and/or difficult. So there are brave believers sharing the gospel, but they face some level of persecution in some places. across northern Africa and into southern Asia. It doesnt say has been proclaimed. Thats not in the word at all. Thats why hes going to Spain. Libya Macau Mali They settled on the criteria for unreached as less than 2% true Christ-followers and less than 5% Professing Christian (this includes all forms of Christianity i.e. There is a chain of events which must occur in order. The only way to hear the gospel is to be told the gospel. "resistant belt.". The statistics from that 10/40 Window can be staggering. You are not allowed to take a bible there. There is no way to know how long it will be; we can only know that it will be! China Cyprus Djibouti - curiousdannii Jan 14, 2014 at 4:18 1 If you'd said that I would have agreed! That means that the people with the most urgent spiritual and physical needs on the planet are receiving the least amount of support. We recommend against using %Christian Adherent and %Evangelical to calculate absolute numbers. Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism are the It simply says that the gospel, which has come to you Colossians, is the very gospel that is bearing fruit and increasing everywhere it goes in the whole world. In the Great Commission Jesus commanded His followers to make disciples from every ethnic people group. Heres a technical definition of the unreached: Unreached peoples and places are those among whom Jesus is largely unknown and the church is relatively insufficient to make Jesus known in its broader population without outside help. Japan To date, 5.5 million believers around the world have dedicated their lives to become full-time missionaries. In several 10/40 Window countries, Christians suffer physical persecution and even death for Why dont they have any excuse? they all have in common are geographic location and significant percentages of unbelievers. We, as believers who are already a part of Gods family have a responsibility to share the gospel with those God puts in our path. Scripture teaches that people arent sent to hell because they havent heard of the gospel, instead, the Bible teaches us they are tried, condemned, and sentenced to hell based on their sins. When we repent of our sin and accept Jesus as our savior, He restores our relationship with God so that we might live with Him forever. This makes a dramatic difference when considering the scope of the Great Commission. But what about people who die without hearing the gospel or being introduced to Jesus? Unless something changes, huge numbers of these Will they miss out on spending eternity with Jesus? While you are at it, google ancient enthusiast Vank cathedral. So, Kevin in Chicago, dont lose your sense of urgency or your sense of confidence that the gospel you believe can be taken should be taken, must be taken to every people group on the planet. For evangelistic purposes it is "the largest group within which the gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understanding or acceptance." We can pray for missionaries, churches, and for God to use us to reach the unreached. It could be a missionary from your local church or it could be supporting organizations like Word on Fire whose mission is to get Bibles translated and into the hands as many people as possible around the world. Short-term missions working to spread the gospel and meet the physical and spiritual needs of the people in the 10/40 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. exploiting breakthroughs in technology in order to advance the pace of reaching every person on Particularly among unreached peoples and places. Just look up Armenian churches in Iran in google. This is the kind of people the Bible is talking about in Romans 10:14 when Paul asks (rhetorically) how people can believe in Jesus if they dont hear about him. Jordan We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God' (2 Corinthians 5:20).Those who have heard the gospel and still reject God's offer of forgiveness are in grave danger: 'If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of . Finally, Jesus commands them to teach the new disciples the same thing that Jesus taught His disciples. No, but does that mean God is not fair? Bush asked believers to draw an imaginary rectangle on the globe going from 10 degrees Almost all of the world's 55 least-evangelized countries are in the Illegal may not be strictly true, but it might as well be in most of these places. (The Traveling Team), Source for People Groups infographic:Winter et al., 3, Source for Money and Missions Pie Chart:International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. Therefore, it is a great gospel. This is Gods mission: One day, people from every tribe and tongue will worship Christ in eternity, and He will receive all glory and honor for it (Revelation 7:9-11). John 14. Missional Digerati, a community of thinkers, designers and developers committed to (World Evangelization Research Center) How are we supposed to take the Gospel to the unevangelized if we dont even know about them? of the current global Christian missionary force deployed there, that situation is not changing Africa to just east of Japan. Ultimately, though, the list is not ours, so we cannot change it. That doesnt really matter though because all of us have no excuse, wherever we live (Rom 1:18-21). Can you explain what Paul means here? It is a gospel bearing fruit in the whole world. Very literally it would read like this: . Christian missions strategist Luis Bush started John Piper is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. All rights reserved. However, for some reason when it comes to world evangelization, many western Christians dont see it that way. Jesus commanded His followers to make disciples from every nation meaning every ethnic people group. Gods vision for GCP is to tell the Western Church about the unreached, raise funds, and send these resources to native ministries that are reaching those people groups that dont have access to the Gospel. Gospel on the Move Colossians 1:5-6 says, referring to "the hope laid up for you in heaven," "Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth." These 50 unreached people groups are comprised of 1.48 billion souls. Were on a mission to change that. ", The Atlas of Global Christianity based on the World Christian Database defines an "evangelized person" as "An individual who has had adequate opportunity or opportunities to hear the Gospel and respond to it, whether he responds positively or negatively". It seems clearer in Colossians 1:23. unreached people groups will go out into eternity never having heard he Gospel. World Factbook. The only two things Wherever you go, you wont ever run into another religion, anywhere in the world, that can nullify the gospel, compromise the gospel. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. So they have been labeled The list is specifically about the ease with which believers can share the message of the Christian Bible and access the scriptures. For since the creation of the world Gods invisible qualities his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse (Romans 1:20) and the requirements of the law are written on their hearts (Romans 2:15). World A is made up of the 33% of the world's population that claims to be "Christian.". The Father has determined that in His sovereign will and nothing can change that. Someone is considered a missionary (for the sake of these statistics) if they have moved somewhere else for the spread of the gospel. Using this definition, we discover that there are somewhere between 242 and 361 unreached people groups living in the United States right . 1Lines of latitude run in an east-west direction around the earth. Tale of two churches Ten Missions statistics:21st century world and passion." Every hour, over 1,600 people decide to follow Jesus Christ. In the last 40 years, over 1 billion people have died who have never heard of Jesus, and around 30 million people this year will perish without hearing the message of salvation. We ship to distributors who can receive the materiallike India and South Africaand their networks move it over land. Some went into Asia-Minor (now Turkey), others into Africa and Rome, while some even went as far as India and Great Britain (we believe). One in five people on earth live in these 50 unreached peoples. VOM is a great ministry to the persecuted Church around the world and they update this list every year. It is a great injustice to think that 2,000 years after Jesus gave the Great Commission that many people groups have no witness in their midst. An average of 160,000 a day hear the message of redemption in Christ for the first time. An unreached people group is "a people group within which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians able to evangelize this people group." calling this rectangular area or band"the 10/40 window." world's most difficult and challenging places. Its so well known in some circles that the idea that the bible is illegal in 52 countries is fairly well known. There are problems with the Great Commission statistics that should concern us. When a person desires to understand who created the world and the qualities within it, Gods divinity is revealed because its written on their hearts. (Baxter 2007, 12) 60% of unreached people groups live in countries closed to missionaries from North America. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them (Rom 1:18-19). Pray for the work, learn how to collect material for us to ship, and/or donate toward the shipping costs. Men and women who have not heard the gospel are not sentenced to hell because they have never heard of Jesus. U.S. State Department reports on I think this is a bigger problem for most people than verse six, but it has a very simple solution if we could just get everybody to translate it the same way. including India and China. There, we seek to make disciples, multiply churches and provide humanitarian relief in ways that are biblically faithful and practically effective. Stratus synthesizes reliable data from different sources to clearly display the worlds most urgent spiritual and physical needs in an intuitive tool. But now, since I no longer have any room for work in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to come to you, I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a while. lives within the 10/40 Window. Here are some of the startling findings: For every dollar of Christian resources less than one penny is directed at reaching unreached peoples. This makes it more imperative than ever to partner with our God to reach the lost. You can change the title of your list, or you can do some research first and remove those countries that shouldnt be on the Illegal list. The ultimate purpose of God is to bring people from all nations to enjoy and exalt Him in all of His glory. (Operation World p. 10) That translates to very close to two billion individuals, one in four individuals, without any knowledge of the Savior! Havent most nations now been penetrated by the gospel? dominant religions in many of these countries, and Christianity is often viewed with suspicion or Some of the Arabic Bibles are on their way to Dakar Senegal, some to Nigeria and Malawi/Mozambique, some to Uganda and Kenya, where there are new converts who can speak and read Arabic. Church to mobilize prayer, people and resources to evangelize and disciple people in all of the For a good study on this, click here. Instead, they are sentenced to hell based on the fact they are sinners. How will you be a part of the work? After Jesus resurrection, He gave His disciples some marching orders. I also send many French bibles from your organization to them. These workers represent the most effective missionary force ever seen, yet they only receive 10% of the resources given to evangelize unreached people groups. What Should I Know Before Becoming a Missionary in the Middle the Great Commission will be complete when disciples have been made and churches have been multiplied among every people group, How to Overcome the Fear of Sharing the Gospel, George Verwers Legacy Challenges Us to Live on Mission. And also youre harming peolples trust in you and their testimony based on your not so right list. Two big boxes of Portuguese Bibles was sent with pastors to Mozambique. GCP believes that the biggest problem in missions today is that the majority of the western churchs resources are being spent on evangelizing places that have already been evangelized, while almost no resources are going to the least reached places. It gets printed on t-shirts and stitched on bible covers. Unfortunately, almost 9 out of 10 of the people living in the 10/40 Window today GCP believes that educating the Church about the unevangelized, where they are, how we can reach them, etc. All Rights Reserved. Heres verse 23: you have been reconciled to God if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven yikes and of which I, Paul, became a minister., Now, thats a real stumbling block for lots of people to read in their translation in verse 23, that the gospel in the first century, halfway through the first century, has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven. And its amazing to me how many commentators try to squeeze that stunning statement into the first century and say something like, Well, really the gospel had reached to what the first-century people assumed was all creation under heaven. To which I delicately say, Baloney.. Many of the countries will not give visas to religious workers. None of us have any excuse. For every dollar of Christian resources less than one penny is directed at reaching unreached peoples. God did this so that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from any one of us. to focus attention on a specific area of the world where millions of people have little or no access cultural sub-groupings, 550 million unreached Hindus in 1660 cultural sub-groups, 148 million unreached Chinese in 445 groups, 275 million unreached Buddhists in 900 groups, 2550 unreached tribal groups (which are mainly animistic) with a total population of 140 Psalm 139:16 says, but in your book all my days were already written; my days had been shaped before any of them existed. Ephesians 1:11 also says God works all things according to the counsel of his will., Photo Credit: Getty Images/Pixelheadphoto. Mission organizations have historically talked about their outreach in terms of Has every human being whos ever lived been exposed to the gospel? And it is estimated that 1.6 billion people have never heard the Gospel -- not even one time. Deuteronomy 4:29 proclaims, But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul. This passage teaches an important principle, everyone who truly seeks God will find Him because God makes Himself known in all of His creation. Or, to state it in terms of people groups, over 7,000 of the worlds 17,000 people groups are classified as unreached. She lives in Minden, Nebraska with her kids, high school sweetheart, and three cats who are her entourage around the homestead. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them, his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. Creative Access areas. (Baxter 2007, 12). Thats all its translating: the proclaimed., It is a straightforward aorist passive participle in agreement with the word gospel. Before we can answer the question of what happens to people who never hear the gospel message about Jesus Christ, lets ask another question: How were people saved prior to Jesus crucifixion and resurrection?. Ward describes as "where the Church is not yet." May God give us the necessary urgency You will see a 360 view of one of those Armenian churches. (World Evangelization Research Center) Christians make up 33% of the worlds population, but receive 53% of the worlds annual income and spend 98% of it on themselves. These mission agencies use these definitions of reached and unengaged to help them strategise how to use their resources (people and money) most effectively so that every person on the planet will hear the gospel, whether through a local preacher or a missionary. is crucial for fulfilling the Great Commission. . actually existed. Put another way, churches are spending approximately 1% of our missions resources among the 3 billion people in 7,000 people groups who havent heard the gospel. How Can I Recognize and Understand the Holy Spirit Better? With the article the in front of the participle, it is not an adverbial participle telling when. They must have realized they couldnt possibly reach every single person in every single nation in the short amount of time theyd be alive, yet Jesus said to go make disciples of all nations. Testimonies from our distributors in India are here https://lovepackages.org/category/testimonials/india/, Yes. majority of the world's Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs live in the 10/40 Window. There is often a small percentage (less than 2%) Christ-followers in these groups, but the vast majority of the group has minimal, if any, exposure to the person of Jesus Christ and the Good News of Gods free gift of salvation. Although these are only imaginary lines, they appear on maps and globes as if they as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing., Now lets look at Colossians 1:23. We did explain that in the post. 5 Principles for Investing in Your Children, 5 Key Ways to Study the Bible Like Charles Stanley, This site is a proud member of the Salem Web Network, a subsidiary of, Copyright 2023, Crosswalk.com. Even Saudi Arabia have heard of the gospel of Christ, what's remaining is the overall acceptance Re: Are There Countries, Places In The World Where The Gospel Has Not Been Preached? And Jesus gives them the authority to do this (Matt 28:18). We know there are many people groups that have not yet heard the Gospel, and there are many believers and missionaries all over the world working hard and dedicating their lives to . These missionaries know the local languages, understand their culture, and cant be deported. OpenDoors has a great page of info on Christian persecution in Columbia. Dont think youve embraced a little thing thats number one. Clearly, the countries of the 10/40 Window are not the only places that need missionaries. In other words, more than 40% of the worlds people groups dont have sufficient access to the Gospel. Surprised no European countries made the list. What happens to people who never hear the gospel message about Jesus Christ? In the parable of the Lost Sheep the shepherd leaves the 99 and seeks out the one. (Ralph Winter p. 536) Current data suggests there are about 17,400 distinct people groups when country boundaries are considered. Gambia Gibraltar Greece Guinea Guinea-Bissau India |. All people are accountable to God whether or not they have "heard about Him." The Bible tells us that God has clearly revealed Himself in nature ( Romans 1:20) and in the hearts of people ( Ecclesiastes 3:11 ). (Barrett and Johnson 2001, 656) The Church has roughly 3,000 times the financial resources and 9,000 times the manpower needed to finish the Great Commission. So, the really crucial question in Colossians 1:6 is why Paul went out of his way to say that that very gospel, which had come to Colossae, was also making its way fruitfully through the whole world. We wanted to share VOMs great work in assembling this resource and also provide some context to the very nuance that you pointed out! Next, they are to make disciples of all nations. There Paul speaks of the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven. Wow. These are found in Mark, Matthew, and repeated again in the Book of Acts. Sadly, the 10/40 Window is also home to 8 out of 10 of the poorest of the earth's poor. Related Resource: Listen to our FREE podcast, Teach Us to Pray with Christina Patterson. A list of 52 countries where the bible is illegal and/or severely persecuted: As mentioned, there are several good ministries doing this work. Paul is emphasizing the fact that the gospel embraced by this little group of people in this little town of Colossae is the very gospel that is proclaimed in all creation under heaven. two thousand years ago. - Robert Bellah, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, originally quote in Psychology Today in the 1970s, currently quoted in Christianity Today Oct 2011: 42. After all, His ways are higher than our ways. Some of them to churches in Namibia, some are waiting on private people who will visit Angola in a short while, some are on their way to a mining group in Malawi, and some to another missionary in Malawi. Extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, the Arab states, South and West Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, again highly unreached regions. 6 000 people groups are broadly Christian, another 3 000 have some Christian witness and the other 3000 are "unreached" with about 1000 having no known Christians and no outreach. God is always fair. I hope you had an edifying weekend. Namely, the Church of today seems to have turned a blind eye to those who have never heard of the Gospel. by buzorcharles ( m ): 1:44pm On May 03 , 2020 Few people in the world today have never heard of Jesus. Why? the 10/40 Window is also home to 8 out of 10 of the poorest of the earth's poor. -- Dale Butler, Nazarene Bible College Every group is larger than 10,000,000 in population. north of the equator up to 40 degrees north of the equator and stretching from westernmost The 10/40 Window region, where most unreached peoples reside, has some of the lowest internet penetration. degrees latitude north of the equator with Africa and Southern Europe forming the western end the world. Editors Note: The following excerpt is adapted from David Platts teaching during Secret Church 21, The Great Imbalance.. On the other hand, this also means none of us are without excuse because God has written His name in our hearts. You will see that those churches are in plane site. Our hope laid up in heaven includes forgiveness of sins, a dwelling in the kingdom of Christ, and an inheritance in light. There are a few countries that are christian countries with millions of christians. Syria Taiwan Luke 12:47-48 says, The servant who knows the masters will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows. 8 Spiritual Disciplines and How to Master Each. I say that not only because they werent that ignorant they really werent that ignorant of the rest of the world but I say it mainly because Paul himself (we already saw this) said in Romans 15 that he was intending to proclaim the gospel in a vast region of Gaul, called Spain, where there hadnt been yet the preaching of the gospel. Theres nothing temporal about it. So, lets take these two passages one at a time. That day is upon us now. (Winter et al., 3) Why then are there still more than 4,000 unreached people groups? less than 2% Christ-follower and less than 5% Professing Christian? The quality of a whole culture may be changed when two percent of its people have a new vision." May we always be prepared and ready to share the gospel and may be reflections of Jesus in all that we say and do. Korea (North and South) Kuwait While the spread of Christianity has been nothing short of supernatural, there are still huge segments of the worlds population that have never heard the name of Jesus let alone a clear presentation of the message of salvation. There are so many needs in the world today where the Gospel has not been preached, or is not even allowed. Jesus Christ. . We cant ship 20 tons of bibles and Sunday school workbooks to Beijing, for example, because it would never get past port authorities. We are within range of penetrating every people group on the planet with the light of the gospel with more momentum than ever before in history. 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