The fact of mission reality known as the “Great Imbalance” is simply that in examining the distribution of missionaries in today’s world only about 10,000 missionaries (of all types not Roman Catholic) work among the 6000 or so unreached people groups.  At the same time, 41 times that number are working among groups that can [...]

When mission leaders have sought to obey the Lord’s command to look on the fields (Jn. 4:35), they have categorized people according to their relative exposure to the gospel.  This helps with setting priorities in mission strategy.   Peoplegroups.org has observed eight categories.  They are as follows. 0.     “No evangelical Christians or churches.  No access to [...]

The 10/40 window is an imaginary Box drawn from 10 degrees north latitude and from west of Africa to east of Asia.   Within this area of the world over 90% of the unreached people groups reside.  However, I prefer to draw the line from 10 degrees south latitude to 10 degrees north latitude.  Doing this [...]

There is another aspect of the Great Commission that we must examine. Since we are commanded to take the gospel to all nations we must ask, what is a nation? Too often we think of a Biblical nation in the way the term is used today, as political countries. Whatever it is, it is not [...]

When speaking of Bible translating, the reader should understand at the beginning that I am not referring to translating yet another English translation.  I believe the multitude of modern English versions is a spiritual scandal.  They have weakened faith in the Bible, lowered the effectiveness of Bible Study and actually led to less Bible literacy.  [...]