God’s Multicultural Church

We have just posted a new sermon called God’s Multicultural Church. Here’s an excerpt:

We have some young friends in their early 20s who serve as pioneer missionaries to an unreached people group on the other side of the world. When I say “unreached,” I mean that in the literal sense. They are so far away from America that it takes nine separate plane flights to reach a certain remote town in the jungle thousands of miles from where they were born. Once you reach that remote town, you take overland transportation up into the mountains and then walk into the jungle. They have gone to the literal “ends of the earth” to bring the gospel to a tribe that knows nothing about Jesus. They have devoted themselves to learning the language, reducing it to writing, translating the New Testament, and someday learning to preach the Good News in that language. They are doing this for the sake of 500 tribal people somewhere on the far side of the earth. Before this young couple found “their tribe,” the people of that area had never heard about Jesus. No one had ever come to them with the gospel. Because the tribe is pre-literate, the young couple first had to learn the language, then they had to reduce it to writing, then they had to begin the long process of translating Bible stories into the language of the people.