MISSIONS: "Re-Evangelizing" Our Own Nation
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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🗓️ 31 July 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The first time Andy Byrd went on a missions trip, he wasn't really living a sold-out life for Jesus. But something happened on that trip: the seed of gospel service was planted in his life. After high school, he signed up to train and serve for six months through Youth With a Mission.
That six-month stint has now lasted 23 years as Andy has dedicated his life to spiritual awakening in a generation. Today he serves on the leadership team of YWAM in Kona, Hawaii, and also heads up The Send, an international event to bring about a new Great Awakening and motivate Christians to get involved in sharing the gospel—to those around them and to the ends of the earth.
Listen as Andy shares about his own call to missions, how God has used The Send, and about his time in places where Christians are persecuted, including North Korea.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you open to the idea of serving God as a missionary? |
| 0:04.5 | Andy Bird says you can start in your own neighborhood. |
| 0:08.9 | Even if you're here in America listening, |
| 0:10.9 | we need to see America as largely unavangelized today. |
| 0:14.4 | There is a whole generation that is growing up |
| 0:16.4 | with very little gospel influence in their lives. |
| 0:19.0 | So more and more, we need to see our own cities. |
| 0:21.3 | Our own neighborhoods, our own nation, |
| 0:23.5 | is massively in need of re-avangelization, |
| 0:27.5 | of representing Jesus to our own nation. |
| 0:30.2 | So I think both those things are very important |
| 0:32.7 | in terms of living a perspective that carries a measure of urgency, |
| 0:36.5 | an importance to every day, an importance to every moment, |
| 0:39.6 | to every relationship. |
| 0:43.6 | Jesus never promised his followers an easy path. |
| 0:46.8 | In fact, he told us disciples that the world would hate them. |
| 0:50.4 | He sent them out as sheep among wolves. |
| 0:53.3 | Jesus' words came true in the life of the apostles, |
| 0:56.3 | and they're still coming true today |
| 0:58.0 | in the lives of his followers around the world. |
| 1:00.4 | Join host Todd Nettleton. |
| 1:01.9 | We hear their inspiring stories and learn how we can help. |
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