Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this week's connecting clip of the week, we'll hear a snippet from Paul's conversation with

Brett Rail, executive director of Christ

Bible Institute in Japan.

In this clip, Brett discusses what makes ministry in Japan so unique.

To hear the full episode, check out the Paul Tripp podcast episode 371.

Here's Paul and Brett on this week's connecting clip of the week.

So let's talk about ministering in Japan.

Maybe you could start with just what's the uniqueness of ministering, the gospel,

into Japanese people and the Japanese culture. Yeah. I think one of the things that's super unique as it being a missionary to Japan,

and something that honestly gets overlooked sometimes, is that the Japanese are the world's

second largest unreached people group. Okay. So that creates a certain category. If you're like into missions, you're thinking like, okay, this is a place where there are basically no Christians.

And that's not exactly the case.

So less than 1% of the population is Christian.

The evangelical population is like 0.3% or something really tiny, and that

evangelical population is actually declined in3% or something really tiny and that evangelical population is actually

declined in recent years instead of increasing. But there is a church there. And the first

missionaries were Jesuit missionaries who went in the 1500s. And so there's actually this long

Christian history. It's longer than America's Christian history, if you think about that. And then in terms of Protestant mission, there's been essentially a steady stream of missionaries going to Japan for the last 160 years.

And there's a big interruption with the Pacific World War II, but that picked up in earnest right after World War II.

And so it's this place that the people are unreached, that there's not a strong Christian

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