The special Lecture on September 11th, 2023 on the topic of remaining tasks for Christians to fulfill the Great Commission (Matthew 28:16-20) is going to highlight the strategic reminders on missionary endeavor based on Dr. Ralph Winter’s mission perspectives.
The greatest missiologist of the twentieth century, Dr. Ralph D. Winter, left an unchanging legacy addressing the urgent need to develop special task force mission strategies to reach out to unreached people groups.
“By the phrase ‘all the nations,’ Jesus was not referring at all to countires or nation-states. The wording he chose (the Greek word ethne) instead points to the ethnicities, the languages and the extended families which constitue the people of the earth,” wrote the Fuller professor and the founder of the USCWM (US Center for World Mission) in his essay, “Finishing the Task”. The missiologist pointed out the great imbalance that was present in the mission labor saying, “Are we making the unreached peoples a priority? Only an estimated 10,000 missionaries out of the global foreign mission force of 420,000 are working within the estimated 10,000 unreached groups. That means 41 times as many foreign missionaries work within reached people groups than those doing the exceedingly more difficult work of establishing breakthroughs within unreached peoples. What an imbalance!”
Two-hour lecture will discuss where we are in our current mission toward fulfilling the Great Commission and the remaining tasks in the date and graphs. Focal priorities for formulating mission strategies will be also discussed.