Today on Summit Life with JD Greer, why would you go take the gospel to a place where people aren't even really receptive to it?

Here's why because life is short and you and I are going to blink and life is going to be over and we're going to be standing in eternity wondering what we did with our lives.

Life is not about 70 or 80 years of finding your perfect life and your dreams and your places you've always wanted to live.

Only one life will soon be passed, only what's done for Christ for life.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor, author and theologian JD Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitavitch.

So here's an important question for you as we look ahead to a new year.

How do you discern God's call on your life?

It's important to remember that when you're trying to hear His voice, don't just look for where the spirit is moving in your life,

but also how He's at work in the world. Because even more important than what the spirit says to you is what the Word of God says to everybody.

And today Pastor JD walks us through how to figure out what God is doing in the world and then in turn how we can form our life to His mission.

If you've missed any of the previous messages this week, I encourage you to catch up free of charge at JD Greer.com.

Now here's Pastor JD with the second part of His message titled, What has God called me to?

Paul says God's main purpose in the world from cover to cover in His Bible and then repeated by Jesus in the great commission as the marching orders for all of His disciples is that people who have never heard the gospel need a chance to hear.

The Joshua project, which is a mission research agency reports that today there are 7,398 what they call unreached people groups that make up 3.2 billion people on our planet.

The vast majority of these unreached people groups live in what we call the 1040 window, which is between the 10th and the 40th parallels, Asia, North Africa, the Middle East.

I want you to get this less than 10% of missionary work is done among those people groups 90% of our efforts are focused on places where there are churches on literally every corner.

Now for sure we have needs here, but I want you to think for a minute of all the way somebody this morning can access the gospel.

This morning you can you have come this church you can hear it on podcasts you hear radio stations TV programs books magazines there you don't like this church there literally churches on every corner there's likely another Christian living in your neighborhood and those unreached people groups none of that exists.

I hear a lot of people today object to international missions because oh there's so much work here what business we got going over there when there's so much to do here and I agree there's a lot of work left to do here.

But I want you to remember that Paul looked at this huge swath of people from Jerusalem to Illira come with over half a million population and less than 500 believers with half a dozen brand new churches and said the work here is done.

I got to take Christ where he's never been named that has got to be the church's priority.

Some of you like well JD, why are you still here?

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