There is a popular argument that persists among American evangelicals that prioritizes domestic evangelism over against international missions. Often it is put in the form of a handful of questions:
- “Why should we spend our time reaching the lost overseas when there are so many lost in our community?”
- Or, “Why spend our money on foreign missions when there are millions nearby who need to hear the gospel?”
- Or, “Wouldn’t it be more effective to focus on the lost here?”
On the surface such an argument may sound plausible, even effectively evangelistic. It certainly appeals to the pragmatic. But examined by the Scriptures, it will not hold. For Scripture does not simply speak of evangelism in commercial terms—finding the fastest way to sell the gospel to the most number of people. Regularly, it speaks of the advance of the kingdom crossing boundaries, reaching nations, and extending the glory of God to the ends…
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