Well, we love to focus our attention here on the podcast on international missions.

I know this is a high priority for you, Pastor John, which is evidenced in where you speak and invest your life.

Everyone here at Desiring God has high respect for frontier missionaries laboring in the

remotest parts of the world.

So how do global missions and the local church work together?

That's the question today.

Hello, Pastor John, my name is Jack, a 17 year old high school student in the US with a passion

for world missions.

My question is this, given the recent decrease in long-term career missionaries and recent

increases in church support for short-term

missions, who should the local church be partnering with today to promote

biblical missions? In other words, what do you think is the best blueprint for biblical world missions in other words what do you think is the best blueprint for

biblical world missions in a local church today? I really want to speak to this

question because I think God is doing something very unusual in our day with respect to frontier missions.

And by frontier missions I mean missionary efforts that attempt to get to places in peoples or language groups that

don't have any ordinary access to the gospel and they don't have any Christian

churches that could build up such a movement of

gospel spreading. Everywhere they look, everywhere the people in those groups look, they see

unbelievers like themselves and most likely they'll be born, they'll live,

they'll die without ever knowing a Christian or hearing what God has done in Jesus to save sinners from destruction.

And it seems to me that God is awakening his people today in a fresh way to this unfinished mission Jesus gave us?

It seems to me that alongside historic mission agencies

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