Something to Fuel Your Passion for the Unreached

The following is a sermon by David Platt, author of a book I read last year, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream.  One of many quotes from Radical is: 

"Do you believe that Jesus is worth abandoning everything for?"

In this sermon, which you can read if you prefer, by going to The Gospel Coalition website, here are some more quotes worth mentioning:

What drives passion for unreached peoples is not guilt, it’s glory—glory for a King.

It’s people who know that our sovereign God deserves the praise of not just 10,000 people groups on the planet, but all 16,000 of them. And we’re not going to stop until every single people group purchased by Christ is exalting His Name.

For every $100 a Christian in North America makes, an average of $0.05 goes to the unreached.

God gives his people worldly wealth for the spread of worldwide worship. The sovereign God of the universe has willed for us to be wealthy for the sake of his worship.

 A high view of God’s sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions.

He closes his message to pastors with these words:

Let us be finished and done with puny theology that results in paltry approaches to missions in our churches.

Let us believe deeply in the sovereign God of the universe who holds the destiny of the world (and our lives) in the palm of his hand.

Let us see the hopeless state of man before God apart from Christ, and let us lead our churches to pray, to give, and to go to unreached peoples with the greatest news in all the world.

We have been saved by a graciously, globally, gloriously particular sacrifice, so let us lead our churches and let us give our lives—let’s lose them, if necessary—for the advancement of Christ’s kingdom and the accomplishment of Christ’s commission.

And let’s not stop until the slaughtered Lamb of God and sovereign Lord of all receives the full reward of his sufferings.

May this encourage and inspire us as we partner together to reach the unreached of Oaxaca, and may it give boldness to us Lokers as we seek to raise more awareness, prayer, and financial support for this vital task over the summer.