A Rebuke to the Church in the Present
Did you know that right now there are over 200 Muslim people groups with populations greater than 100,000* which have no Christian witness? Furthermore, mission strategists are unaware that anyone is making plans to reach out in these areas.
How can this be? More than 2,000 years after our Lord came to earth, so much of the task remains undone. As I wrote some years ago, “When the last command is ‘Go,’ I had better have a jolly good excuse to stay, hadn’t I?” There is urgency not just in the fact that making disciples was our Lord’s last command on earth, but in the fact that hundreds of millions of people are living their lives in darkness, “who will die without any knowledge that could make the decision theirs.”
Christian, you have some role to play in light of the facts outlined above. Has God called you to the field? Has He called you to find and support people who will go? Has He called you to pray?
Nearly two millennia after they were spoken, these words are still relevant to us today:
“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” ~ Luke 10:2
Yes, Lord, this is our prayer.
* Please visit http://www.30-days.net for information on Muslim peoples. 30 Days International also offers prayer guides which assist Christians in praying for Muslims during the month of Ramadan. The numbers above are cited from this prayer guide and are used by permission. I urge you to visit their website and see how you can join believers around the world in praying for lost Muslims at this critical time.
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