Becoming a World Christian

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Becoming a World Christian

• Romans 1013-15

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• pastor
• founder - Voice of the Martyrs
• 14 years in prison
• 3 years solitary confinement in total darkness
• ridiculed tortured for his faith

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The Need
Do you not say, There are still four months and
then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you,
lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for
they are already white for harvest!- John 435
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10/40 window
2/3 world population.4 billion people. 95
un-reached.
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The Need

• un-reached
• virtually no access to the gospel
• no indigenous community of believers with
  adequate numbers or resources to evangelize the
  lost without requiring outside (cross-cultural)
  assistance.
• only 8 of the worlds missionaries are in the
  10/40 window.
• 1 missionary per 5,000,000people

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The Need
every person has the right to hear the gospel
Let the peoples praise You, O GodLet all the
peoples praise You. Oh, let the nations be glad
and sing for joy!- Psalm 673-4
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The Need
every person has the right to hear the
gospelwe have the obligation to tell them
Go therefore and make disciples of all the
nations Matthew 2819
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The Need
every person has the right to hear the
gospelwe have the obligation to tell them
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?And how shall they
preach unless they are sent? - Romans 1014-15
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Meeting the Need

• going
• sending
• all called to be world Christians

• do all for the glory of God (1 Cor 1031)
• for the advance of His kingdom (Matt 633)
• with a view to its consummation which will
  embrace every tribe, tongue, people, and nation
  (Rev 79)

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Meeting the Need

• going
• sending
• all called to be world Christians

Not every Christian is called to be a missionary.
But every follower of Christ is called to be a
world Christian. A world Christian is someone who
is so gripped by the glory of God and the glory
of His global purpose that he chooses to align
himself with Gods mission to fill the earth with
the knowledge of His glory as the waters cover
the sea (Habakkuk 214).- Let the Nations be
Glad by John Piper
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Reasons to GO!

• become a more passionate and effective world
  Christian
• you have time

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Reasons to GO!
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Reasons to GO!

• become a more passionate and effective world
  Christian
• you have time
• unique strategic opportunity
• no one can reach them like you can

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Short-Term Opportunities with Grace College Life

• Summer Project / STINT
• East Asia Central
  Asia

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Short-Term Opportunities with Grace College Life

• Vision Milan / Internship
• Milan, Italy

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- Central Asia
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- East Asia
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- Vision Milan
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lift up your eyes and look at the fields

• do I have compassion for the lost?
• am I a world Christian?
• have I made myself available to the Lord?
• what is holding me back?

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