Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more?

Surely the gospel evokes unconditional surrender of all that we are and all that we have to all that He is.

May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.

To be a disciple of Jesus is to make disciples of Jesus.

If we are going to accomplish the global purpose of God, it will not be primarily through giving our money, as important as that is. It will happen primarily through giving ourselvs. This is what the gospel represents and this is what the gospel requires.

My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.

The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the Gospel remain in the dark