{"id":341,"date":"2011-09-12T01:43:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T05:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/?p=341"},"modified":"2011-09-12T01:43:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T05:43:57","slug":"go-make-disciples-of-all-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/2011\/09\/12\/go-make-disciples-of-all-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230; go make disciples of all nations&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-342\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/files\/2011\/09\/sonsondergang.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-342\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/files\/2011\/09\/sonsondergang-300x225.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/files\/2011\/09\/sonsondergang-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/files\/2011\/09\/sonsondergang.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One of the great things of our passport country, is to be able to brows on the internet! \ud83d\ude42  While gathering some information for a brochure, I came across these statistics:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022  Even though Christ came to earth more than 2000 years ago&#8230; of the  6.5 billion people live on Earth. 2.3 billion live in darkness and fear&#8230; \u2022 There are still nearly 7000 unreached people groups.** \u2022 There are some 6,600*  languages in the world BUT in 2010 the complete Bible was translated into only 469 languages and the New Testament into 1,231.  (www.unitedbiblesocieties.org\/) \u2022 the 3 main organizations involved with translating the Bible into new languages: Wycliffe Bible Translators, New Tribes Mission and the Bible society (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bible) \u2022 NTM plants churches under the unreached people groups of the world in Africa, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region and has over 3000 missionaries. \u2022 Only about 0,2% of all missionaries in the world, end up working in a unreached people group.  Most missionaries work in countries and under people that have free access to the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p>**Of the 16,713 people groups by country, 6,926  or 41,4% are still considered unreached. (www.joshuaproject.net\/)<\/p>\n<p>* Some recourses state 7,358 languages worldwide, depending on the different interpretations between \u201clanguage\u201d and \u201cdialect\u201d.(The Ethnologue &#8211; languages of the world,, SIL International, 2009, 16th edition ).<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, there is much work to be done in reaching the unreached and especially in translating the Bible!  However, each one of us has a different role to play as part of the Body of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230; go make disciples of all nations&#8230;\u201d Jesus, according to Matthew 28:19<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-343\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/files\/2011\/09\/wereld.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"232\" height=\"151\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-343\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/files\/2011\/09\/wereld.png\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things of our passport country, is to be able to brows on the internet! \ud83d\ude42 While gathering some information for a brochure, I came across these statistics: \u2022 Even though Christ came to earth more than 2000 years ago&#8230; of the 6.5 billion people live on Earth. 2.3 billion live in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}