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We realized then how easily we could immobilize Christians through distraction. Increase affluence and toss pleasures their way. Most to become functional universalist anyway. If affluence doesn’t work, we highlight other legitimate compelling causes such as poverty and injustice to divert them from their world mission.

They had made many sacrifices to their gods but had never heard of a God who would sacrifice for them.

People start listening because they see us doing something that’s never been done before. It validates what we’ve been telling them, and now they believe. We’re bold and take risks, trusting God openly for God-sized stuff.

How many of our church squabbles, debates of theology, and worries about politics could be set aside by getting our eyes back in the lost masses? The priority of their eternal destiny trumps all these lesser things.

For every unengaged unreached people group there are at least eighty Protestant churches in America alone!

Over time, every movement develops institutionalism. This adds ling-term stability while restricting innovating and risk-taking.

We’ve been faithful with what we’ve known. You’ve been faithful with what you knew. Now we must be faithful with the new things. God is showing us. He is sovereign. No second-guessing.