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Kapstadt 2010 Vorab-Dokument

Vermisste Menschen: Das unversorgte „Viertel” der Welt: Insbesondere Buddhisten, Hindus und Muslime

Autor: S. Kent Parks and John Scott
Datum: 05.07.2010
Category: Welt-Glaubensgruppen

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Anmerkung der Redaktion: Dieser Vorabbericht zu Kapstadt 2010 wurde von S. Kent Parks(1) und John Scott geschrieben und stellt eine Übersicht dar zum Thema „Vermisste Menschen: Das unversorgte „Viertel“ der Welt“, welches bei der Multiplex-Sitzung diskutiert wird. Stellungnahmen zu diesem Bericht durch die Lausanner globalen Gespräche werden an die Autoren und andere Personen weitergeleitet und sollen dabei helfen, die endgültige Präsentation beim Kongress festzulegen.

 VERLORENE SCHAFE, VERLORENE MÜNZEN, VERLORENE MENSCHEN

Eines Tages saßen die Begleiter Jesu, die Steuereinnehmer und Sünder, um ihn herum und hörten ihm zu: „Nehmen wir an, einer von euch hat hundert Schafe und verliert eines von ihnen... oder nehmen wir an, eine Frau hat zehn Silbermünzen und verliert eine davon...“ (Lukas 15). Diese Leute haben keine Mühe, Jesus zu verstehen. Sie wissen, was es heißt, verloren zu sein.

Jahre später, in einer überwältigenden Vision auf der Insel Patmos, sieht der Apostel Johannes ein Lamm, das aussieht, als ob es geschlachtet wäre, und es steht im Zentrum des Thrones im Himmel. Spontan bricht Anbetung aus: „Du bist geschlachtet worden und hast für Gott mit deinem Blut Menschen erkauft aus allen Stämmen und Zungen und Völkern und Nationen“ (Offenbarung 5).

Der Preis des Blutes ist bezahlt und in der himmlischen Vision empfängt Jesus die Anbetung, die ihm gehört. Die Arbeit ist bereits getan. Ist sie das?

Wie wollte Jesus, dass alle diese verlorenen Menschen aus jedem Stamm, jeder Sprache, jedem Volk und jeder Nation entdecken sollen, dass er den Preis für sie bereits bezahlt hat? In seinen Geschichten über das verlorene Schaf und die verlorene Münze erklärt uns Jesus: Das Natürlichste, was man tut, wenn etwas verloren ist: man geht hin und sucht es. Selbst wenn es bedeutet, wie im Fall der Schafe, dass man neunundneunzig zurücklassen muss, um das verlorene zu finden. Jesus sagt sogar, dass der Hirte „sich mehr freut über dieses eine als über die neunundneunzig, die sich nicht verirrt hatten“ (Matthäus 18,13). Haben wir diese Wahrheit wirklich begriffen?

Die Vielfalt der Menschen rund um den himmlischen Thron in Offenbarung 5 veranlasst uns zu fragen:

  • Wenn eine solche Vielfalt die Zukunft der Gemeinde in der Ewigkeit ist, wie kommt es dann, dass noch so viele Menschen auf dem Bild in der Vision, die Johannes hatte, vermisst werden?
  • Welchen Einfluss hat ihre Abwesenheit auf uns andere? Haben wir uns jemals überlegt, was wir in der globalen Gemeinde vermissen, weil sie vermisst werden?

Wenn die Gemeinde die Prioritäten Jesu für die verlorenen und an den Rand gedrängten ignoriert, so ignoriert sie beinahe zwei Milliarden Menschen. Wer ist dieses vergessene Viertel der Weltbevölkerung?

VERSTECKTE MENSCHEN – DAS VERGESSENE VIERTEL 

Beim historischen Lausanner Kongress 1974 erschütterte Ralph Winter die evangelikale Welt, indem er die Notlage der „versteckten Menschen” zur Sprache brachte:

Unsere Freude darüber, dass jedes Land der Welt erreicht wurde, ließ viele glauben, dass jede Kultur erreicht wurde. Dieses Missverständnis ist eine solch weit verbreitete Krankheit, dass sie einen speziellen Namen verdient. Geben wir ihr den Namen „Menschen-Blindheit“ – d.h. Blind sein für die Existenz abgeschotteter Menschen innerhalb von Ländern. (2)

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Stichwörter: Vermisste Menschen, versteckte Menschen, Ralph Winter, Mündlichkeit, Bibelarmut, Isolation, Kultur, Ressourcen, Ethne, Matthäus 24, 14, Jüngerschaft, Gemeindegründung, Veränderung, Ungerechtigkeit

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Antworten Kennzeichnen 0 Daumen hoch Daumen nach unten gwu_stevens (1)
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I find it interesting to hear the various stories coming from the Muslim world where so many seem to be getting the Good News of Jesus through dreams.  If you hear those stories from one or maybe two people, you can often discount them, but it seems that the stories are coming in from several places around the Muslim world.  Perhaps the Holy Spirit is working in places where believers simply cannot go due to the overwhelming persecution.


04.11.2011
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@ gwu_stevens:

The barriers are not insurmountable which is a wonderful thing.  These people need Jesus just as much as we do if not more and I am gladdenned to hear plans on how best to approach this problem.  I enjoyed hearing from a person at Sat 7 who broadcasts the Gospel message into Muslim countries from beyond their borders.  This ministry is a blessing and can operate by bypassing the barrier of geography.  Jesus speaking in dreams without our aid just tells us that we need to be at the ready when these people seek our help in understanding the message.  


21.11.2011
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@ TomTharpGW:

These closed countries are doing more and more to stamp out efforts to spread the Gospel via technology.  Pakistan recently created a list of obscene words that cannot be sent via text message to or within the country; one of the terms was Jesus Christ.  Obviously this is not an obscene word, so the only reason to outlaw it is to stop Christian mission work from being done.


But we have to take heart and remember that every time the world closes a door on the Gospel, the Holy Spirit opens up another door that we have to be looking out for.


21.11.2011
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@ gwu_stevens:

No matter how Orwelian they try to become they can’t stop single individuals from sharing the Gospel with each other.  Even when the punishment is Death by punji stick people will still spread the word by mouth.  We need to be making and equiping disciples to go into all these places where we are not welcome.  People of the ethnicity and dialect who will be able to move uninhibited.  


22.11.2011
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@ gwu_stevens:

We join you in praising God that He does indeed continue to give dreams and visions to Muslims -- and people of other religions.  In the vast majority of the stories from around the world, God seems to be sticking to His main plan - He sends someone to interpret those dreams.  As we train cross-cultural witnesses to go, we train them to know they will face persecution.  God’s Word tells us that fact.  So, yes, the Holy Spirit is working now as he has forever by both sending visions followed by sending people to interpret God and His dreams in places that are very challenging.  In fact, if we believe the Holy Spirit, there are no places His followers cannot go -- only prices we may disobediently refuse to pay.  So, let’s celebrate the dreams and visions -- and those who obey God by being like Daniel by "showing up" in spite of danger to tell people what these visions mean -- and who Jesus is.


15.06.2012
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As far as unreached and hidden people are concerned I like what Lesslie Newbegin said in the book The Gospel in a Pluralist Society, "Christian Churches have taken to fighting over the remaining athiests and agnostics instead of attempting to convert those of other faiths."  If this is true then it is a huge loss for us as Christians and for the people we should be converting.  The problem that Newbegin says is that the Christians are often not nearly as devout or good as those of the other religions in their neighborhoods.  So, before we can reach others we have to take back Christians and get them to stand up for Christ as much as Buddhists are standing up for Buddha.  The we can approach the missing fourth with some hope of success.


21.11.2011
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To call these people the ignored peoples is a challenging statement because it recognizes how we have put our monies and energies into less important ’projects’ instead of focusing on God’s Mission.  95% of the churches’ money goes to the church while only 1% is spent on making disciples of the quarter of the world that has never heard the name of Jesus??  Wow.  We have to be better stewards.


04.10.2011
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Mexiko

Thank you for this challenging paper. The lack of progress since 1974 and the lack of Christian resources being spent to take the gospel to those who have never heard it are cause for corporate repentance. I hope that we may hear more at Cape Town 2010 about the strategies that have been proving fruitful among unreached peoples recently, as well as ideas about how to encourage individual Christians, churches and missionary organizations reach out to those who are currently beyond the reach of the gospel. For the sake of clarity, what do the 1% of Christian and 2-4% of missionaries include? Do they represent all Christian money worldwide and all cross-cultural missionaries world-wide? For example, would they include the work of India Inland Mission, which sends thousands of Indian missionaries to do pioneer work amongst unreached Hindus in the north of India?


13.10.2010
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@ Charlie_Fletcher:

Once you get down to that level of granularity it becomes a little problematic for the accuracy of what are essentially global statistics. The case of the Indian missionaries would "depend." If they are working cross-culturally, then yes, they would be included in that general stat. If they are not working cross-culturally, then no, they would not. But those kinds of estimates are generally made at a national level and then aggregated to regional/global.


13.10.2010
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Mexiko
@ justinlong:

Thanks for your reply Justin. I’m just getting around to some post-congress replies. I agree that we can’t expect compete accuracy in every detail of these lists, given the complexity and dynamic nature of the task. At the same time, the devil’s in the detail, as the saying goes. If we can’t be confident about the accuracy of the research at the granular level, it’s difficult to affirm the global estimates. With the benefit of hindsight after the CT2010 session on unreached and unengaged people groups, hearing that more than 100 updates and corrections were offered to make the list more accurate, I was left wondering how the list initially presented at the congress was researched. On a more positive note, it was marvellous that so much additional information could be collected at the congress, and hopefully, as one of the fruits of gathering leaders representing the whole church, the partnerships and contacts arising from CT2010 will help provide a clearer picture with regard to unreached and unengaged people groups. I hope the updated list will be made available soon.


24.11.2010
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Thanks for this paper.  We need to be continually reminded of this until they are no longer lost.  Early in the Lausanne movement, there was much contrition and repentance over the fact that so few resources and effort was going into reaching the missing peoples, an example would be LOP 4 on Muslim Evangeliziation.  Since then there has been an increased effort in some areas but your paper still points to the reality of huge imbalances and people not being reached, or even trying to be reached.

Guilt is not a good motivator but we must still be called to repentance over the situation until we examine our priorities and make the adjustments to reach them.

Jesus is worthy.


17.10.2010
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Jordanien

I am intrigued about the fact that 95% of our giving goes to church internally while we should be focusing on external work of the Church and believers. I think it’s a big challenge to make a paradigm shift in many concepts: giving, looikng at scattered groups, development of evangelistic methods. Great article.


16.10.2010
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I am so grateful for the way you have articulated the lessons you have learned when it comes to the work of reaching the world’s unreached peoples. While I am sure they still work at times, I have grown increasingly frustrated by the old ways that are still presented as models for missions to unreached peoples. Much of the training I received in preparation for spending a summer teaching EFL at a college in an unreached nation was unhelpful. (For a great explanation of some of the changes in missionary models, I suggest Fritz Kling’s book, “The Meeting of the Waters...”, which came out in the last year.)

One key you mentioned here in the lessons you’ve learned is so important: “Disciple to conversion, not convert to make disciples.” Yes! This is so important. It means that we teach people what it means to be a Christian, even before they have been born again or made a decision for Christ. It means letting go of the agenda to get people to “pray the sinner’s prayer,” and instead, invest time in modeling and exploring Kingdom values and traits.

Of course, this requires more time than handing out a tract and inviting someone to pray. It requires months and sometimes years of investment in genuine friendship. It requires us to take time and become known for our love, compassion, patience, joy, etc. And it probably means that we do not have large numbers to report as our trophies of the mission field. Yet it is the way. As you said, “No mass evangelism so the masses will hear,” and, “A new/inexperienced insider is more effective than a highly trained, mature outsider.” This is counter-intuitive to our usual models of missions and evangelism, but it is, I think, more effective today.

Thank you for the great paper. I’m looking forward to hearing more and learning from others at Lausanne!


16.10.2010
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Kudos for a powerfully written piece on this essential topic.  As we are together in Cape Town, may God pour out on us a spirit of repentance that we may weep between the altar and the courts.  May we not finish weeping until our rebellion is purged and there is no more fight left in us to focus on ourselves.


15.10.2010
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Italien

Thank you for such a thoughtful and passionate paper!

I would encourage to also add something of the "missing peoples" who come to "Christian" nation to study as an international student or as a refugee. As a Brazilian missionary serving in Italy (supposed to be a "Christian" nation), I have been finding wonderful possibilities to share the gospel with international students and refugees from the "missing people." They might come back to their country as a much more equipped missionary (knowing language and culture) than I would ever be there.

Blessings!


13.10.2010
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@ Sarah_Breuel:

Thanks Sarah. You’re absolutely right: reaching out to "diasporas" (Google for diaspora missiology, and you’ll get a lot of links) is a critical part of reaching unreached peoples. In fact (not to toot my own horn--grin) but I recently talked with a guy who’s doing ministries to refugees from unreached countries in this interview: http://www.justinlong.org/2010/09/2010-podcast-no-8-trent-deloach-and-ministries-to-refugees/. Many European countries are gaining large populations of immigrants & refugees, all of whom come from these kinds of situations. It’s a growing opportunity to bless people!


13.10.2010
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On behalf of the authors of the paper, thank you to each of you for taking the time to respond to this paper. We look forward to seeing you in Cape Town and continuing our prayer, discussion, and strategy development there! See you in just a few days!


11.10.2010
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Niederlande

This paper is a right challenge to the Church, to Christians, to me. Thank you! It also brings sadness, for it seems so hard to get people interested in others other than themselves. There so often are so many ’excuses’ of things not quite right yet, to reach out to others that do not know Jesus as their Savior and Lord. And then, in several countries, there’s the effects of tolerance. Binding people, keeping them quiet. How do people fall in love with Jesus again? And then stand up and speak out.

Thank you for the encouragement of all the examples. It encourages to pray and praise God.


07.10.2010
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Mexiko

Mes siento muy retado a ver mi compromiso y mi respuesta hacia la proclamación del evangelio. Sobre todo porque muchas veces se nos olvida la razón de compartir..."Debemos discipular a las naciones porque Jesús es digno de recibir la honra, la gloria y la alabanza de ellas"


05.10.2010
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This paper is so challenging. We are in a world where everything is so centered around ourselves, including the church and missions. It makes me so sad to see these statistics of how few of our resources and finances are going towards the unreached-- this should be the place where MOST of our resources are going! We need to be reminded that reaching lost people is GOD’S mission and priority. If we really love God with all our heart, it will be our priority and mission too. It is so true that the greatest reason to seek and save the lost is because Jesus is worthy to recieve the WHOLE world’s praise! That is something I need to remember.  

I love the emphasis of making disciples, not just converts. Missions is not limited to simply proclamation, improving living conditions, or social justice. These things are good and are a part of mission, but I think the greatest priority needs to be making followers of Jesus who have a personal faith and will be able to share and spread that faith in their own worlds-- disciples, who make disciples... The Spiritual injustice in the world is more critical than the social injustice. The greatest change occurs by the work of the Holy Spirit. Jesus Himself sent us to "make disciples of all nations." He, who is our Lord and greatest Love, should be our motive and source of bringing the lost to Him.

I am definitely challenged to constantly keep my passion for missions of the unreached in line with the heart of Jesus!


04.10.2010
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Thank you for the paper! This so stirred my heart. Father give us understanding and revelation that we will grasp the situation.  We ask for strategies and blueprints from Heaven.  Father break our hearts for "missing people", show each one of us our part, in Jesus’ Name. Holy Spirit thank you that You are our Helper. I ask for a birthing of excitement to partner with Heaven.

Marguerite


03.10.2010
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Australien

One point that we should not forget is that many of the unreached people live in the WEST. There is a huge opportunity and responsibility for the Christians in the West.

Perhaps it is easy to think that those in the West are minimal compared to the ones who are overseas; however, we should remember that each unreached person has family and friends overseas. These can be reached through the relatives who have immigrated.

Mission has now shifted from overseas to home and overseas.  However, the perception of most evangelicals is that the missionfield is only  overseas.

Another point is that a new phenomenon is happening....Millions of unreached people from Islamic background are leaving Islam and the majority are becoming Christians. There is a big need to disicple them and train them to be evangelists to others.

The unreached are becoming the evangelists and disciplers. It is no more us and them but it is TOGETHER in Christ.

The whole paradigm is changing and a new situation is developing globally. Churches and missions here and overseas should wake up and prepare to become welcomers, encouragers and disciplers.


28.09.2010
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Grossbritannien

SUCH a challenging paper...thank you. I would love us as the worldwide church to have much more regular education on this subject, leading to action of course. I share the suggestion that we perhpas need to become increasingly ’strategic’ in how we accomplish this.


21.09.2010
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Jamaika

Wow!  This presentation is a rallying point for some serious commitment.  Lost coin, lost sheep, missing people – why are we spending so much time on the 99?  Because we have been programmed to do so.  That’s what church with 4 walls and ministry schedules does.  Discipled differenetly we would respond differently.  Recognising the problem, how do we address it?  Does everyone suddenly get up and go find these people?  Certainly we can’t!  So how do we decide who does?  And, when that is decided - should we not support them by providing them with the resources they need, including the much needed prayer support? 

When we gather in a month’s time to share and reflect may God give us direction and infuse us with the spirit of wisdom so we may discern who should in fact “go!”.


17.09.2010
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Excellent paper. Thank you for it. I wonder if one of the reasons why there are still hidden peoples-unreached peoples is that when we give our lives to Christ we are looking to him to make our lives happy and blessed. We are not necessarily entering into a love relationship where we want to learn what inspires and moves him. We don’t think about our hearts being shaped like his heart, his passions becoming our passions. Not everyone is wired to go to the hard places where a lot of these unreached are. However, I am sure there are many that are potentially wired that way, but they never thought about letting Jesus shape their hearts and their desires in his image. 


14.09.2010
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Ghana

Much thanks to the authors for this informative article that connected the start of the people-group movement to where we are today in relation to reaching those who have no access to the Gospel. God bless the writers for their thorough understanding of the subject.


13.09.2010
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This has been the most challenging and stimulating advance paper I’ve read yet. I share your urgency about missing peoples, and appreciate the vigor with which you make the argument. 

I especially appreciate your point that Bible Study is about discovery and obedience, not preaching and knowledge. We must learn new paradigms in which we as missionaries stop "spoon-feeding" the "right" answers to indigenous believers. We must help them discover truth in Scripture for themselves, trusting the Holy Spirit in the process. This may lead to conclusions that are uncomfortable to our own sensibilities! We also must emphasize obedience - the living out of the mandates of Scripture - rather than simply collecting knowledge without transforming daily life and behavior. 

Letting the lost lead Bible Studies is a brilliant concept, and one that many might be uncomfortable with. But if we trust the Holy Spirit to draw seekers and enlighten truth, what better way to get people actively engaged? We must relinquish control. Our role should be that of prayer warrior, friend, and - here’s the key - good question-asker. When missing peoples begin engaging Jesus and the word, they will have questions. Rather than giving the answers ourselves, let’s ask them good questions in return - questions that point them back to the Scriptures and to Jesus himself! We can’t shortcut the process! 

I personally am excited to rise to the challenge of missing peoples - the vigorous challenge you present here. I am currently gathering a team of believers who will address that challenge amongst Arabic speakers. 


19.08.2010
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