3. We can pray.
Pray for unreached people groups, for God’s word to go out, and for people to repent and come to faith. Pray for God to send workers into the fields. And pray that the Holy Spirit would open eyes and hearts so that God’s chosen children would find their real, lasting family.
4. We can give.
Identify ways that you can give your time, money and resources to supporting what God is doing across the world. Help fund those who are going or volunteer to pray for their specific needs and work. Partner with them sacrificially and joyfully, knowing the worthiness of God’s word going out to all peoples.
5. We can go.
Even if you can’t live there long-term, go and see God’s big world for yourself. See all kinds of people who are really, really different from you. Connect with them so you’ll have a greater passion to pray for them when you come home. Put faces on the gospel poverty and pain we read about. And witness the good things God is doing through the church, even in the hard places.
Let’s reflect God’s desire for a global family in our families. We can’t settle for the American dream when we’ve known something better, more worthy and far more global—God’s eternal kingdom. Let’s live with a heart that beats and pleads for God’s glory and global missions, whether it’s in our kitchen in Houston or on the mission field in the Middle East.
Where you and your children lay your head at night doesn’t keep you from serving God for the sake of the nations. This is your mission—local and global—to see God’s name glorified throughout the earth until the day when every knee everywhere will bow.
