Unreached peoples are unreached for a reason. They're hard, difficult, and dangerous to reach. All the easy ones are taken

Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus. In the same way, they are responsible for helping us. We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?

On popular issues like poverty and slavery, where Christians are likely to be applauded for our social action, we are quick to stand up and speak out. Yet on controversial issues like homosexuality and abortion, where Christians are likely to be criticized for our involvement, we are content to sit down and stay quiet.

Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus