14 January 2010

Overwhelmed by the Numbers

This morning I was praying through some of the people groups on the calendar at Joshua Project Calendar and began looking deeper into the statistics of some of the Unreached People Groups (UPG).  One of the groups I prayed for was the Megh, Hindu of India.  As I was reading through some information on them one stood out to me in particular.  This particular group in India alone adds up to some 2.76 million people.  As I looked further, less than 2% of these peoples follow Christ.  That means at most, there are roughly 52,000 Christ followers there, which still leaves over 2.7 million people in one people group who are blinded by false religion.  This stirs something inside of me as I hope it does you, to think that in one people group alone there are this many people who don't know Christ.  And this is not the only group that has these types of figures.  This really brings to light what Jesus spokes when he said the harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few.  In what way can I, can you, join in on the mission of God to make His name great among the nations.  Will you commit to pray for these unreached people groups daily?  Will you pray and honestly consider whether God is calling you?  So often it is easy to tell ourselves that most of the world is Christian when we just sit in our comfortable, American, Christian bubble.  But when we open our eyes to the World around us, we realized the urgent need to take Christ to the nations.  Pray for these peoples.  Go to these peoples.

1 comment:

Prisoner of Hope said...

I know Booney! When we were in Trinidad, it was overwhelming the number of people who hung the Hindu flags outside their home,signifing the the priest had been there to offer up prayers. They only take the flag down when the prayers are answered. The flags were tattered, torn, shredded,because no prayers were answered. It was disheartening to see that they kept waiting for something that would never come. On flip side tho, they were open to the mission work that was done there, and so many lives were changed as a result of your group being obedient to God's leading. One thing I remember is when they sang the song Awesome God, they changed the words to our God is THE Awesome God. Due to so many gods they worshipped.

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