A Third of Us

By Marvin J. Newell (summary by Jeffrey Bush)

• Unreached means they have no access to the gospel.
• The three “no’s” of the unreached:

1. No Bible
2. No church
3. No known believers

• it could also be said as

1. No believers
2. No Bible
3. No body of Christ.

• According to Joshua Project, there are 17,468 people groups in the world. Of these,
  7,419 (41%) are unreached.
• We have people around us that are unsaved, but we cannot classify them as
  unreached. People in America have some form of access to the gospel, whether they
  have believed or not. They may remain unrepentant, but they are not unreached.
• The five different times that Jesus gave the great commission were sequential, but
  not synoptic. It was not the same account spoken about five times, they are five
  different occasions that Jesus said these words. He is stressing the importance of
  taking the gospel by repeating it over and over.
• God is a missionary God. What does it mean to be sent on mission? The word
  mission has four components:

1. As sender
2. A person sent
3. Those to whom one is sent
4. An assignment

• Have you thought about what Jesus did not say in the great commission? He did not
  tell them where they were to go, how far they were go, how long they were to go,
  why they were to go, nor the specifics of the message, rather He was informing them
  that they were being sent.
• People believe the message because they believe the messenger. Make Christ your
  evident passion that others can detect in your life.