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A pastor wanted advice on how to talk to his church about unreached people groups. \u201cDo people still talk about the 10\/40 Window?\u201d he asked. \u201cNot like they used to,\u201d I said, and glibly trotted out some of the latest jargon, messages, and models, then dove down a few rabbit holes with my own critique and commentary developed by decades of debate. \u201cBut keep it simple,\u201d I concluded, realizing my little speech had been anything but.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What would you tell my friend? If you were talking about the least-reached in a church service or in front of a class or small group today, what would your message be? Maybe you\u2019ve done this recently. I\u2019d love to hear your talking points and how you balance clarity with nuance, to empower rather than overwhelm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next month I will attend the annual Mission Leaders Conference from Missio Nexus and hope to see some of you there. This year the conference will explore what\u2019s happened with the unreached people paradigm in the last 50 years, how we understand it now, and what the future holds for this kind of thinking. So that may help with my question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Along those lines, see Ted Esler\u2019s recent article with four reasons to prioritize the unreached<\/a> as well as one on why closure missiology is bad theology<\/a>. You might also want to read Len Bartotti\u2019s upcoming book, People Vision: Reimagining Missions to Least Reached Peoples<\/a> (William Carey Library).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Such topics should also be part of the conversation at the Lausanne Congress coming up. If you\u2019re heading to Korea for that (or attending the interactive online conference), let us know how it goes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grateful to partner with you, Greetings, readers! A pastor wanted advice on how to talk to his church about unreached people groups. \u201cDo people still talk about the 10\/40 Window?\u201d he asked. \u201cNot like they used to,\u201d I said, and glibly trotted out some of the latest jargon, messages, and models, then dove down a few rabbit holes with my … Continue reading Editor\u2019s Note: Talking About Unreached People Groups<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13213,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13212\/revisions\/13213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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