Unreached People Groups

[Ascetic X]

Acts 1:8

“…but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

While some say the 1st century Christians spread the gospel through much of the world known to them, most of the world was not evangelized, and 2,000 years later, much of the world is still unreached.

It is estimated that of the 8.08 billion people alive in the world today, 3.42 billion of them live in unreached people groups with little or no access to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

According to Joshua Project, there are approximately 17,269 unique people groups in the world with 7,188 of them considered unreached (over 42% of the world’s population)! The vast majority (85%) of these least reached groups exist in the 10/40 window and less than 3% of missionary work is done among these people.

 

[SovereignGrace]

Which means we have been lax in our duty to spread the good news to every person.

 

[kyredneck]

According to Joshua Project, there are approximately 17,269 unique people groups in the world with 7,188 of them considered unreached (over 42% of the world’s population)! The vast majority (85%) of these least reached groups exist in the 10/40 window and less than 3% of missionary work is done among these people.

Which means we have been lax in our duty to spread the good news to every person.

Do you all believe that all these folks that know not the gospel are going to hell?

 

[SovereignGrace]

Do you all believe that all these folks that know not the gospel are going to hell?

Its not what I believe but what the bible says. Yes, those who do not know Christ via the gospel cannot and will not be saved.

 

[kyredneck]

Its not what I believe but what the bible says. Yes, those who do not know Christ via the gospel cannot and will not be saved.

Hmm, opinions haven't changed much...

John Chapter 7

49​	But this multitude that knoweth not the law gospel are accursed.

 

[kyredneck]

Its not what I believe but what the bible says.

Where? Where does the Bible say those who've never heard the gospel are going to hell?

My Bible says:

John Chapter 3

8​	The spirit blows where He wills, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

...doesn't say the Spirit goes only where men carry Him...

 

[SovereignGrace]

Hmm, opinions haven't changed much...

John Chapter 7

49​	But this multitude that knoweth not the law gospel are accursed.

Care to expand on this?

 

[SovereignGrace]

Where? Where does the Bible say those who've never heard the gospel are going to hell?

My Bible says:

John Chapter 3

8​	The spirit blows where He wills, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

...doesn't say the Spirit goes only where men carry Him...

Ah, but faith comes from what?

 

[kyredneck]

Hmm, opinions haven't changed much...

John Chapter 7

49​	But this multitude that knoweth not the law gospel are accursed.

Care to expand on this?

??? You all have the same attitude towards the gospel as the Pharisees had towards the law.

 

[SovereignGrace]

??? You all have the same attitude towards the gospel as the Pjarisees

How so? Without the gospel, none can be saved. Faith comes from hearing (and also reading, imo) the word of God. The word of God is central to salvation.

 

[kyredneck]

Ah, but faith comes from what?

Fruit of THE SPIRIT.

 

[SovereignGrace]

THE SPIRIT.

By hearing the word of God, per Romans 10:17.

 

[kyredneck]

How so? Without the gospel, none can be saved.

??? What's the difference? The Pharisees say without the law the multitude is accursed. You say without the gospel the multitude is going to hell.

Faith comes from hearing (and also reading, imo) the word of God. The word of God is central to salvation.

Pharisees thought the same about their law.

 

[SovereignGrace]

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”⁠—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in Him will not be disappointed.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? How will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!”However, they did not all heed the good news; for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.[Romans 10:8-17 NASB]


Paul intrinsically links faith to the word of God. They go hand-in-hand. There is no faith imparted to anyone outside hearing the word.

 

[SovereignGrace]

??? What's the difference? The Pharisees say without the law the multitude is accursed. You say without the gospel the multitude is going to hell.


Pharisees thought the same about their law.

Your complaint is not against me but God and His word. I'm bowing out as I've rowed this creek before and the water got rather choppy. Adieu.

 

[kyredneck]

By hearing the word of God, per Romans 10:17.

So slacking soul-winners have blood on their hands? Folks going to spend eternity in torment because someone didn't reach them with the antidote to the fatal sting?

 

[kyredneck]

Your complaint is not against me

Yes it is, and hellers hardline restrictivists like you.

 

[SovereignGrace]

So slacking soul-winners have blood on their hands? Folks going to spend eternity in torment because someone didn't reach them with the antidote to the fatal sting?

The bible (not I) says faith comes from the word. I didn't write it. Again, I need to bow out as I said I was. Adieu. I am not a hardline restrictivist as you say. Faith comes from hearing the word, not being zapped in a remote place where none has ever heard even one word of God.

 

[kyredneck]

Acts 1:8

“…but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”

Note that Christ never told them to 'do the best that they could'. He told them that they indeed would be His witnesses unto the uttermost part of the earth. And they were. The preaching at Pentecost was literally a gospel bomb, "their sound went out into all the earth" :

5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven.
6 And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speaking in his own language. Acts 2

I am not a hardline restrictivist as you say.

Yes, you are. "This multitude that knoweth not the gospel is accursed." That's what hellers hardline restrictiivists believe.

 

[SovereignGrace]

Yes, you are. "This multitude that knoweth not the gospel is accursed." That's what hellers hardline restrictiivists believe.

I keep telling you I am bowing out of this, yet you continue to goad me. Here is my final response.

We see that the Jews were not to be the only ppl of God, in either/both covenants. God had entrusted the Jews with the word of God [Romans 3:2] to take it to the surrounding nations. "Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, To minister to Him, and to love the name of the Lord, To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath And holds fast My covenant; Even those I will bring to My holy mountain And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar; For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”[Isaiah 56:6-7] Jesus confirmed this when He said, And He began to teach and say to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a robbers’ den.”[Mark 11:17] Then the time came when their rejection by God became final when Jesus said, "Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it."[Matthew 21:43] Jesus took from them, the Jews, their standing before God, and He also took away their responsibility of taking the word to the nations and entrusted it to the church. As Jesus said prior to His ascension to the Father, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”[Mattew 28:19-20] It is the church's responsibility to take the word to the nations now.


If that's a restrictivist, then sign me up.