Unreached People Groups

[kyredneck]

Totally wrong.

Your view would indicate that missionary work and evangelism are not needed anymore, because the gospel went to the whole world.

TOTALLY WRONG.

I already know you lack the sense to know who the real enemies are, do you also lack the ability to discern between the means and the message?

2nd Timothy Chapter 1

10​	but hath now been manifested by the appearing of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,

 

[John of Japan]

Acts 1:8

“…but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

While some say the 1st century Christians spread the gospel through much of the world known to them, most of the world was not evangelized, and 2,000 years later, much of the world is still unreached.

It is estimated that of the 8.08 billion people alive in the world today, 3.42 billion of them live in unreached people groups with little or no access to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

According to Joshua Project, there are approximately 17,269 unique people groups in the world with 7,188 of them considered unreached (over 42% of the world’s population)! The vast majority (85%) of these least reached groups exist in the 10/40 window and less than 3% of missionary work is done among these people.

Add to that 3000 languages which still do not have a single verse of the Word of God in the language.

 

[John of Japan]

So slacking soul-winners have blood on their hands? Folks going to spend eternity in torment because someone didn't reach them with the antidote to the fatal sting?

On the other hand, according to your doctrine we should never give the Gospel to anyone, because if they did not know it before, they would have gone to Heaven. However, when they understand the Gospel through our witness, they are now headed for Hell.

So according to your doctrine my life was wasted giving the Gospel for 33 years in Japan, then preaching in various other nations. Witnessing for Christ, then, sends people to Hell--especially in unreached people groups.

 

[Aaron]

Where? Where does the Bible say those who've never heard the gospel are going to hell?

My Bible says:

John Chapter 3

8​	The spirit blows where He wills, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

...doesn't say the Spirit goes only where men carry Him...

Men are carried by and sent by the Spirit. There may be some exceptions where Christ might appear independent of missionary efforts, but Saul of Tarsus is the only one I'm sure of, and it would be an exception not the rule.

Either way, without faith it is impossible to please God.

But their sound has gone out (Rom. 10:18):

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. - Psalm 19:1-6

 

[kyredneck]

On the other hand, according to your doctrine we should never give the Gospel to anyone, because if they did not know it before, they would have gone to Heaven. However, when they understand the Gospel through our witness, they are now headed for Hell.

Christ is the 'means' of life and immortality, not the gospel. The gospel tells His sheep their warfare is accomplished; they have been reconciled. That IS the good news to His people, ye have been reconciled.

So according to your doctrine my life was wasted giving the Gospel for 33 years in Japan,

Oh puh-leeze, this not about your life, it's about rightly dividing the word. You may be convinced that the gospel changes goats into sheep and populates heaven above, but in reality the gospel 'saves' His sheep into His kingdom here below, now, in this realm of time. The gospel has not saved one soul from eternal damnation, Christ's work accomplished that, the gospel tells us about it.

 

[kyredneck]

Men are carried by and sent by the Spirit.

"The Spirit where He willeth doth blow", He does not require men's help in the birthing.

This applies to every saint:

7 `Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;
8 the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.` Jn 3

26 and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all, Gal 4

"The Spirit where he willeth doth blow", and that includes the womb. There's no where the Spirit cannot reach.

 

[Aaron]

"The Spirit where He willeth doth blow", He does not require men's help in the birthing.

This applies to every saint:

7 `Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be born from above;
8 the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been born of the Spirit.` Jn 3

26 and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all, Gal 4

"The Spirit where he willeth doth blow", and that includes the womb. There's no where the Spirit cannot reach.

Yeah, I get it. But God has chosen preaching.

 

[kyredneck]

Yeah, I get it. But God has chosen preaching.

Sheep food!

"...feed My lambs..,tend my sheep...feed My sheep..." Jn 21:15-17

Acts Chapter 20

28​	Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

Luke Chapter 24

27​	And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

32​	And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?

Nehemiah Chapter 8

10​	Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye grieved; for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.

 

[Ascetic X]

Evangelism could not be more clear.

The Spirit does not blow around preaching the gospel to wombs or born people. But when a person hears the gospel, like wind, the Spirit arrives mysteriously and enters him as a new birth.


2 Corinthians 5:20

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were beseeching you by us: we pray you on Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.



Romans 10

13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

 

[atpollard]

Do you all believe that all these folks that know not the gospel are going to hell?

One would hope so.
It would be disappointing to learn that we are spreading the gospel to people previously bound for Heaven and damning them by telling them the Good News.