More Muslims have come to faith in our lifetime than in all the previous centuries combined. The upward trend in the number of movements to Christ among Muslims is perhaps the greatest mission story of our time.
If you can think of anything more exciting than that, you will have to tell me.
Still, I can show you thousands places in the Muslim world where there are no messengers of the Gospel—and, for that reason, no movements. These are the unengaged. These last peoples and places are the last frontiers. Who will go and tell them that God is love?
I asked a Spanish-speaking friend, “What’s the word for ‘unengaged peoples’ in Spanish?”
What he said went right to my heart.
The upward trend in the number of movements… is perhaps the greatest mission story of our time.
“Los pueblos abandonados,” he said. The abandoned people.
Does not your heart cry out for los abandonados? Enough piling up of workers in the eminently livable cities of London and Vienna, Istanbul and Amman! There must be more courageous Christians who want to go where there is no path, where no footsteps have gone ahead, where there are no pushpins in the missions map.
The places where the pueblos abandonados live are in the Caucasus region of southern Russia, in Uttar Pradesh of India, in the furnace heat of Chad and Sudan, in Islam’s heartland in Saudi Arabia, among the 17 million Indonesians on the island of Sulawesi, in the urban sprawl of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
These are the countries where hundreds of pueblos abandonados live.
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? — Romans 10:14
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