Why should churches focus on the unreached if there are so many lost people in our own communities?

And also, what's the difference between being lost and unreached?

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In today's message, David Platt uses Romans chapter 15 to define what it means for a people group or a place to be considered unreached

defining these terms is critical as we aim to get the gospel to the greatest areas of need.

While all unbelievers need to hear about Christ, there's still many people groups and places with little or no access to the gospel.

Here's David defining unreached people and places from Romans chapter 15.

If you have a Bible and I hope you do, let me invite you to find Romans Chapter 15.

This is actually where we left off and talking about missionary and missionary team.

I want to use the same text to give a picture of a term that's used pretty often in

missions conversations today and that word is unreached.

Now, unreached, kind of like missionary, doesn't appear anywhere in the Bible.

But we don't even have a word, so to speak.

Like missionary, we had a apostle in the Bible

that was at least a little bit similar.

And when it comes to unreached, we don't even have a word that's really similar.

And as a result, there's been a lot of discussion and even debate around what that word means

when it comes to missions.

Going all the way back to you look in mission history, you'll see William Carey,

he wrote his initial inquiry into the,

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