KEY 2 OF 5
Why is this my problem to solve?
Someone already answered that question — by telling you.
It is easy to assume someone else — a missionary, an agency, a “more spiritual” Christian — will do what Jesus plainly told every follower to do. Everybody’s problem quietly becomes nobody’s problem, until it becomes personal.
Here is what makes it personal: for every still-unreached language group, there are on average more than 150,000 believers who could — together — get the message there. The shortage was never people. It is people who assumed it was someone else’s job.
Scripture gives five straightforward reasons this is your problem, not just a cause to feel vaguely good about:
Redeemed
You were bought at a price — you are not your own
Representative
You are Christ’s ambassador on earth
Responsibility
One master, one clear assignment
Rewards
What’s done in faith is not forgotten
Rejoicing
No one else can do your part — or share your joy in it
Did you choose where you were born? Access to the Gospel was not something you earned — it was handed to you. Thousands of language groups still have no such access at all. That gap is not an accident of geography. It is an invitation.
“Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.” — Sinclair Ferguson