Julie and I have a great privilege.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not just talking about the opportunity to spend my \u201cwork day\u201d focused on establishing churches among the world\u2019s unreached people groups. That\u2019s huge, and Julie and I are hugely grateful to those who give so we can do this work for which we do not receive a paycheck.<\/p>\n
What I\u2019m talking about is the privilege to do that in the USA, and therefore to have the opportunity to also be involved in a local church.<\/p>\n
This first quarter I\u2019m traveling a lot, disrupting my opportunities to be involved locally, but I\u2019m determined to find more ways God can use me in my local church, because of what happened in Thailand the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
Being around people who spend their lives working with unreached people groups, who have a \u201cwhatever it takes\u201d attitude, prompted me to begin asking myself, \u201cWhat am I doing today to make disciples of all nations?\u201d<\/p>\n
If my job as a believer is to make disciples of all nations \u2013 and since Jesus commanded it, I think it is, for me as well as for you \u2013 then I need to be truly involved in that. Not just giving it lip-service, but to be sold out to the task, because I\u2019m sold out to Him, and I want to respond to His unconditional love for me and the grace He pours into my life.<\/p>\n
It would be unconscionable to try to do that and to not be involved in a local church, wouldn\u2019t it? It would be hypocritical to say I want to find more and more ways to make disciples of all nations and not look for ways to do that in and through my local church. It would be silly to think that \u201call nations\u201d doesn\u2019t include my own people.<\/p>\n
But I have to wonder \u2026 is the other way around OK?<\/p>\n
If we\u2019re all called to make disciples of all nations, shouldn\u2019t it also be unconscionable to just be involved locally? Wouldn\u2019t it be hypocritical to not be looking for more ways to be involved in establishing churches among unreached people groups? Isn\u2019t it silly to be called to \u201call nations\u201d and focus on only one \u2013 your own \u2013 while ignoring all the unreached people groups?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think my praying, giving and teaching in my local church is enough, and I\u2019m going to try to find ways to do more.<\/p>\n
Do you think what you\u2019re doing to make disciples of all nations is enough? Will you look for ways to do more?<\/p>\n
Julie and I have a great privilege, and I hope you see your opportunities to be involved in our ministry as a great privilege for you. Here on our blog, you can find opportunities to pray<\/a> and to give.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Julie and I have a great privilege. I\u2019m not just talking about the opportunity to spend my \u201cwork day\u201d focused on establishing churches among the world\u2019s unreached people groups. That\u2019s huge, and Julie and I are hugely grateful to those who give so we can do this work for which we do not receive a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}