While international missions is a huge theme in the life ministry of John Piper, that word

missions has appeared 250 times on this podcast alone.

The church has global aspirations.

Our ongoing prayer is the prayer of the Psalmist.

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy.

Psalm 67 4.

Amen.

The nations join the chorus of joyful praise to our God through Christ and use us Lord

in that process.

And so we pray regularly here at Zaire and God that the Lord would bless our global

outreach and our translations efforts and our international travel.

But you may be like Pastor John and myself.

We live in large cities in the United States.

And here it's very easy to be buffered from the needs of the world.

And yet we too are called to feed global aspirations in our own lives and in our own churches.

Missions was woven into the fabric of the church from its very inception.

So why are Savior told his very first followers in John 1016?

I have other sheep that are not of this fold.

I must bring them also and they will listen to my voice.

So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

Here's Pastor John in a 2011 sermon to explain why we need these words in America today.

I am praying that John 1016 will fill you with a confidence that the saving, global,

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