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Auteur: Liz Adleta
Date: 24.05.2010
Category: Peuples non-atteints
Our world today is composed of more than 6 billion individuals living in 234 geo-political nations but in nearly 17,000 ethnê, or people groups by country according to the latest Joshua Project statistics. Of those ethnê, 6,644 groups remain least-reached–there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize their own people group. These groups are found around the world, not only in the 10/40 Window nations, though the highest numbers are there. Jesus told His disciples in Luke 10:1-3, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Jesus’ solution to the dilemma of the plentiful harvest with few workers was prayer. “God is doing a truly remarkable thing in restricted access nations. But the closer we come to the completion of this age, the more the church needs to penetrate these regions. There is simply no way we are going to penetrate the final frontiers in a lost world unless we see a greater prayer army raised up,” stated Dr. Dick Eastman. In her book, Intercession, Thrilling and Fulfilling, Joy Dawson echoed this call to prayer, “God’s priority plan to reach the unevangelized is the mobilization of His people in united prayer.”The question before us then, is:
“What role must prayer play in igniting church-planting and disciple-making movements among the remaining least-reached people groups in the next ten to fifteen years?”
Mots-clés: Prayer, unreached, church planting
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Commentaires: 6
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États-Unis
Thank you so much for this perspective. I think that prayer plays a huge role in life, missions, and reaching unreached people groups. I personally cannot physically go out and try to reach every unreached people group out there. Through the help of information given by the Joshua Project, I can pray for an unreached people group every day. I can pray over my fellow missionary friends and I can pray over the society that I am living in. I am a strong believer that prayer can move mountains. Nothing is impossible with God.
05.05.2013
États-Unis
Yes! Most definitely prayer should be a part of everything we do and everyone we connect with and the foundation for every church plant and the beginning of every church planting movement. Prayer is the crucial strategy for reaching the unreached.
19.10.2010
États-Unis
It seems like prayer is the cement that we must use in building any church plant or outreach. It will be the glue that holds every effort together. Many times it seems like we silo prayer in another container seperate from our activities. But shouldn’t it be a part of everything we do, everyone we connect with and every action we take?
24.05.2010
Afrique du Sud
@ Jon_Hirst:
I love that description, Jon! I agree that often we have a tendency to segment prayer as a separate piece, as you said, rather than be abiding in a continual conversational relationship with God in all we do. What do you think is the key to helping us all really live in that place of true abiding so that all we do is springing out of this integral relationship with Jesus? Is there a key to helping brothers and sisters move toward that?
24.05.2010
États-Unis
@ Ethne_Liz_A:
Great question. I wonder the same thing so many times. It seems like the key is fostering a sense of "being with Jesus" so that we feel comfortable talking with him along the road. When we create barriers between us and our father, it seems to create silos.
25.05.2010
Afrique du Sud
@ Jon_Hirst:
“He who has ears, let him hear.” (quoted by Jesus more than 10 times in the New Testament)
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
Paul Tillich quotes (German born American Theologian and Philosopher, whose discussions of God and faith illuminated and bound together the realms of traditional Christianity and modern culture. 1886-1965)
“Communication is the vehicle for creating and maintaining intimacy, and it is the means by which we know another person.”
--H. Norman Wright, from Communication Key to Your Marriage
How can we cultivate a listening heart? How can we intentionally "draw near" to God? Thoughts?
27.05.2010
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