In Your Bible Read This
Jonah. (The whole short book)
Here Is Your Memory Verse
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. Matthew 24.14
Afterwards Talk About
This
Where do you live? In which of the three worlds A, B or C?
Why do you think that? Think of some other nations in your
continent.
Which world they are in?
Something To Do Before
Next Time
Get a large piece of card, the inside of a box will do. Draw
an outline
of the world, then add the 10/40 window and write the nations in
there.
Hang the card where you can see it and tick the nations after
you have prayed for their peoples.
Written Diploma Work
From an atlas write a list of as many nations as you can find
in the
10/40 window. Next to their names put down their predominant
religion and politics.
Meditate Word By Word On
This Verse
Isaiah 54, 2-5
- Spend
a Minute to Change the World
- Pray For The Ethnos -
Operation World page 26-28
- Nearly 1,000,000,000
people mainly Chinese or Muslim
- who have never heard
the gospel once.
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Be sure to
teach this lesson to others.
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Always pray and
prepare well adding
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your own verses and
stories to bring it to life.
Matthew 28.19 says we are to go and make
disciples of all nations or ethnos, meaning groups of
people who are bound together by common history, language and
culture. According to Acts 1.8 we have three fields to go and
work in.
Jerusalem, meaning our home
where people are like us, speak our language and where we
know our way around.
Judea and Samaria are nearby,
where the people are similar to us, but the culture and
dialect is a bit different and there could be a bit of
prejudice around.
The Ends of the Earth where
people are very different in their culture, climate,
lifestyle, religion and language.
The idea is that we work in all 3 areas at
the same time. Obviously we can do more in our Jerusalem
because there we are strong in manpower, materials and money. We
can do less in our Judea and Samaria and at the ends of the earth
we may find ourselves quite limited.
Some think that we should Christian-ise
our Jerusalem before moving out. If that were so, the church
would still only be in Jerusalem city because even today that
is still one of the most gospel resistant cities on earth.
1. Lets Take A New
Look At Our World.
We are going to divide the world into 3:
World A - has an Abundance
of unreached peoples!
World B - where people live Beside Christians
who are salt and light.
World C - the Christian world, filled with
gospel witness, resources and workers.
2. World A Is The
Unevangelised World.
Typically 0 - 0.05% Christian, about 66% of
the world, 3000 million people, in the 55 least evangelised
nations, countries like Afghanistan, Syria. the Maldives, Western
Sahara, North Korea, Djibouti, Uzbekistan.
The 10/40 Window
People sometimes call World A, the 10/40 window,
because geographically it extends from 10o north to 40o north
of the equator, and from West Africa to Japan. You can see
this on the map at the top. Inside the window are most of the
worlds lost and poorest peoples.
The Silk Road
The 10/40 window happens to hold the ancient Silk Road
which even in 1000 BC linked Europe and the Far East. Along
it all the Bible events took place, the oldest civilisations
arose, and the great religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and
Christianity travelled along it with the traders. The last
one was a forceful Islam which explains why this area today
is now very resistant to the gospel. Most of the world's poor
also live along the Silk Road which is no coincidence. Many
believe that the Silk Road will also be the way that many new
Chinese missionaries will travel to bring the gospel back to
Galilee.
3. How Do You Reach
World A?
Although far from western churches, God has
placed many new developing world churches very close to these
unreached peoples. For a westerner, mission to unreached peoples
demands years of training, language school and adaptation. But
for an Indian, Chinese or African believer these last remaining
unreached peoples are near-neighbours and may even share a
similar culture or language.
One of the best things that a western
church can do is to help a developing world church and the best
thing a developing world church can do is to have a mission
vision, a partnership with a western church or mission, and to
send its own people as missionaries.
4. World B Is The
Evangelised But Not Yet Christianised World.
That is about 41% of the world where
Christian witness has been well established for many years. In
countries like India, Cuba, Myanmar, Syria, Indonesia, Chad,
Nigeria, unsaved people live close to Christian believers and
they can be reached by church evangelism.
5. World C Is Our
Christian World.
We live in about 33% of the world and our
nations own of most of its wealth. World C is countries like
Britain, Guatemala, Brazil, Australia, Kenya, Norway, USA and
Canada. The problem is that Christians in World C do not take
seriously their responsibility for reaching the peoples of even
World B let alone the unreached peoples of World A.
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Out Of Every Ten People Alive Today
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Four are unreached people in world A
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Three live near Christians in world B
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Three more are Christians in world C
Who in World C is willing to pray, give or
go to World B or to the 1,700 most unreached peoples of World A?
All 1,700 have 10,000 or more people and there are many more
ethnos with a lesser population. A journey from World
C to World A or even World B in prayer or in
a plane is the only way to win the ethnos. Is there a
connection between the ethnos and the return of Jesus? See what
your memory verse says.
6. Reaching The
Unreached
The developing world churches often have
the manpower and the willingness to go to the unreached peoples
but they lack the training and especially the finances. Here are
some ways for a developing world believer to be a missionary
without having to raise a lot of money:
Many governments, like China or Libya
sponsor foreigners to come
and study in their universities.
Servants in the Middle East can be
missionaries at the same time.
Businessmen can trade globally.
Refugees can carry the gospel far and
wide. If it happens to you - go!
Acquire English or computer skills and
the world opens. They recruit an expert, but receive a
missionary.
- Taken from the
Joshua Project Unreached Peoples List
these people have no church and as yet
no cell, church or mission has committed themselves
to prayer, adoption or church planting among this people.
China
|
People Name |
Language |
Population
|
Miao, Guiyang Northern |
Miao, Guiyang Northern |
84,000
|
Miao, Guiyang Southern |
Miao, Guiyang Southern |
28,000
|
Miao, Guiyang Southwestern |
Miao, Guiyang
Southwestern |
70,000
|
Miao, Huishui Central |
Miao, Huishui Central |
40,000
|
Miao, Huishui Eastern |
Miao, Huishui Eastern |
14,000
|
Miao, Huishui Northern |
Miao, Huishui Northern |
70,000
|