It’s hard to imagine that there are almost 7 billion human inhabitants on the face of planet earth. Generous estimates are around 1 billion of those people are believing Christians. That means there are over 6 billion people who are lost without Jesus. Of these 6 billion people, over 3.5 billion have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ! You heard me say this past weekend that there are over 6,000 people groups without a Christian witness [actually 6426 to be exact].

There is no way that we can make a real impact toward reaching these unreached people groups unless we experience a genuine Great Commission Resurgence. We must see a tidal wave of evangelistic and missionary passion, or the numbers of unreached people groups will only continue to expand, and the lostness will grow. We must penetrate the lostness.

We must acknowledge the centrality of the gospel message to everything we do and everything we are. This is the heart beat of the passing of the Great Commission Resurgence last week on the convention floor. In the next post I will begin to unpack the seven components of the Great Commission Resurgence.

It is my prayer that these components will stir our heart strings to reach our “Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth.”