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Dr. Thomas (Tom) Lloyd Malone, Sr., age 91 graduated toHeaven on January 7, 2007. He was the Pastor Emeritus ofEmmanuel Baptist Church in Pontiac, Michigan, the church hefounded and where would serve as pastor for a total of over fiftyyears. In 1953 he also established Midwestern Baptist College.In its 54 years, the college has trained and graduated many hun-dreds of preachers and Christian workers who serve faithfully inchurches around the world. Dr. Malone served as a member ofthe board of the Sword of the Lord since 1958. He also authoredover a dozen books which have had a worldwide circulation.

He is survived by his wife, Joyce (Harned), to whom he wasmarried for sixty-seven years; one son Thomas, Jr.,* and twodaughters, Joy Paige Smit and Debra Rydman; he was precededin death by Sylvia Elaine, who died in infancy. He is also sur-vived by 17 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.

*As the Unpublished WORD Journal was going to press, Thomas Malone, Jr., their only son,

passed away on February 8, 2007. Please pray for Mrs. Malone and the family.

THE WHO,WHERE, WHATOF MISS IONSThe basics! Just thebasics! Mike Norrisreexamines theMatthew 28 accountof the GreatCommission in thispowerful sermon. He deals with thepersonnel, the place,and the program ofMissions. You willfind it encouragingand challenging.PAGE 8

UPDATE: MONGOLIA PROJECTKen Fielder, Assistant Director of FirstBible International, givesus an update on the progress in Mongolia and the dedicationof the new printing facility. PAGE 12

STATIST ICSHere are some current statistics of the 180 million pro-fessing Christians in today’s world and their comparisonto the five other major religions They are both interest-ing and provocative. PAGE 14

WILLIAM CAREY-THE FATHER OF MODERN MISSIONSHere is the first of a series of articles about the life and ministry of the Father of ModernMissions, William Carey. God used thisunique man in a monumental way and muchcan be learned from his commitment to givethe gospel to the people of India. PAGE 16

EDITORIALEditor Charles Keen reminds readers that the church is atwar. Most mission efforts focus on the challenges ofattacking the enemy of darkness. Keen suggests thatthere also needs to be an exit strategy… and that itshould be a plan and not an afterthought. PAGE 4

10 THINGS. . .Mission Maker Magazine con-ducted a worldwide survey of250 different national pastors in21 different countries. You willfind this information both con-victing and humbling. PAGE 7

Unpublished WORDEditor – Charles Keen, Assistant Editor – Ken FielderCirculation/Advertising – Jerry RockwellGraphic Design – the graphic edge, Frisco, TXProduction/Printing – Clark’s Printing Co./Ventura, CA

The Unpublished WORD Journal is a quarterly publication of FirstBible International. All correspondence should be sent to the editorial offices at:FirstBible International, 3148 Franklin Road, Murfreesboro, TN 37128. Phone (615) 796-0043, email: [email protected], website: www.firstbible.net. FirstBible International is a ministry of Franklin Road Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, TN, Dr. Mike Norris, Pastor.

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MUSL IMS AND MISS IONSEven with an unprecedented openness tothe gospel today, Muslims still remain oneof the least evangelized groups in theworld. Kurt Nelson discusses the reasonsfor the vast omission among the 1.2 billionadherents of Islam. PAGE 5

Some of the authors and their material featured in UW Journal are not necessarily in agreement with the theological position of the UW Journal.Their writings are included because of their insight into the particular subject matter published in the UW Journal.

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Exit Strategy

Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfield resigned his office on November 8,

2006. If there was any one factor with which the American public was collec-

tively dissatisfied, it was that neither he nor President Bush seemed to have a

clearly defined exit strategy. This may or may not in your mind be a justifiable observation. Maybe the prob-

lem wasn’t so much his lack of one as much as his lack of articulation in this area. Or it could be he was

not at liberty to put one on the table because of turmoil within the country of Iraq, or because of the diversi-

ty of opinions by the Coalition of the Willing. Perceived truth isn’t always the truth.

Let me address another war in which we are involved that needs a definable exit plan. The church is at

war with the kingdom of darkness. The big question is: What is the missionary’s and his sending church’s

(or in some cases his mission’s board) exit plan? When do we have troop withdrawal? When does the mis-

sionary exit his field of service and leave reconstruction to the native population? Can we as Americans stay

too long and in so doing rob the national of looking to God instead of the missionary and/or rob the nation-

al church of the necessity of their need to become indigenous and sovereign? The answer is yes. Can the

American missionary stay beyond his time and his presence becomes a liability? Once again the answer is

yes. (I suggest the exit plan should be foundational to the occupational plans.) In reality we go to the field

with a front end loaded burden of raising support, visa challenges, needed travel funds, and set-up costs and

fail to factor in the exit strategy.

It is true that we can leave too early from the scene of the spiritual battlefield, but we can also stay too

long. The challenge is to find the right time to exit. Obviously the time to exit is not measured in ministry

size, years or months but in development of the work being done in the new convert and conquered terri-

tory, called discipleship in Bible language, and defined by Jesus in Matthew 28:20 as “…teaching them to

observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you...”

An exit plan is necessary and should be a part of the initial offensive. One reason is the example of

Jesus. He came as the Captain of our Salvation and mentioned often He would not be staying, “…greater

works than these shall He do; because I go..,” “…I go to prepare a place for you,” “Whither I go…” The

cross is Jesus’ exit plan, as is His resurrection and ascension. The coming of the Holy Spirit was part of Jesus’

exit strategy, “…I will send him…” The exit plan for the Church is His coming at the rapture. The points are:

1.) An exit plan requires a strategy to be in place so when that time comes the spoils of the war are not lost.

2.) The exit plan must be part of the original strategy and not an afterthought.

Let’s bring this thesis of the necessity of an exit plan into our present day mission plan. Do we have one

and what should be the identifying mark to let us know when it is time to implement it?

I suggest our exit plan should be determined by the existence of a local church, existing humanly speak-

ing, from the native economy and with national leadership trained and in place. Is this too simplistic?

Another way it is said is that a people group is considered reached when there is a church in the group that

is self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating. Hence, near neighbor evangelism can become the

strategy for evangelism instead of mission (outside) evangelism.

With this as our exit strategy we see the necessity of soul winning, discipleship,

Bible institutes and development of local funding. All these are subjects that

deserve development in our exit strategy as we enter the field to which God has

called us. And may I be bold and say our goal becomes church planting rather

than every creature evangelism. The missionaries go in with the strategy of soul

winning discipleship to plant a church from which the won and discipled native

population will then reach the “every creature” in their people group. We move

on to do it again and the multiplication becomes evident. There is some biblical

support for the missionary making church planting the goal of ministry rather

than every creature evangelism. Jesus was a church planter who commis-

sioned the church with all of her imperfections to carry on the work of every

creature evangelism in His absence. Paul was a church planting missionary

who in places like Ephesus, Crete, Thessalonica, etc., left the every creature

work up to the local church. Is it rational to think we are to reach every crea-

ture before we move on to another place of ministry?

EDITORIAL COMMENT

Charles F. Keen, editor

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ur task is clear: Jesus commands His followers toevangelize the entire population of the world(Acts 1:8). Furthermore, Jesus prophesized the

apocalyptic fulfillment of this task when He said that,“the gospel must first be published among allnations.” (Mark 13:10)

Accounting for approximately 25 percent ofthe unreached population of the world, Muslimshave, until very recently, been virtually ignoredor bypassed by the Church of Jesus Christ inher worldwide missions endeavor. Rick Loveaffirms this fact when he states that, “Muslimsremain the least-reached peoples on theearth.”1 Why has there been such a mas-sive oversight? Many believe that a varietyof significant factors have historically andunwittingly coalesced to cause this terribleomission of the Church’s mission to evan-gelize and disciple the unreached 1.2 bil-lion people in the Muslim world.

These factors include, but are not lim-ited to, the following: prejudice, igno-rance, misunderstanding, lack ofresponsiveness, lack of focused invest-ment (of prayer, people, and financialresources), and the high cost (includinglanguage and cultural adaptation,time, and suffering) required to realizeany measure of success in makingChristian disciples of the multitudesimprisoned in spiritual darkness underthe banner of Islam.

”The truth is that Muslims are not somuch resistant to the gospel as they areneglected by Christians.* For hundredsof years the church has virtuallyignored the Muslim world.”2 AsLivingstone observes, “The church as awhole has never been particularly con-cerned about Islam, consideringMuslims too difficult, it has turnedaway.”3 We have invested less than twopercent of North American Protestant mis-sionaries in reaching Muslims. There hasbeen little sowing; there has been littlereaping.4

Missiologist Ralph Winter addresses theissue of prejudice in the Church’s response to

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Islam, noting that, “Whatneeds to be very clear in thepresent discussion is the factthat in recent historyChristians and Muslims haveeach developed highly sensi-tive and extensively prejudi-cial attitudes toward eachother. Most North AmericaChristians in the 1950s and1960s seldom thought aboutthe existence of Muslims.”5

Until recently, the deploy-ment of the missionary forceamong the Islamic world hasbeen meager. In his manu-script, Servants in theCrucible, Mohit Gupta (apseudonym), he notes that there are only “900 Westernmissionaries for the more than 1.2 billion Muslimsworldwide. That represents approximately 1.2 percentof Western mission resources” focused upon 25 percentof the world’s unreached people!6

In his book, Church Planting Movements, DavidGarrison cites some phenomenal and incredibly posi-tive developments in evangelism and church plantingamong former adherents to Islam.

Of course it is impossible to know how many ofthese are coming to Christianity and how many comingto Christ, as is impossible to know that in America, butit is an encouragement to the concerned Muslimobserver. Positive developments are not limited to thesemovements among Muslims responding to the gospel,but also include upward trends among Christian work-ers responding to the need, the opportunity, and the callof God to carry the gospel, Bible and the church ofJesus Christ to the Islamic world. Greg Livingstoneobserved an increase in missionaries responding to thecall to reach the Muslim world and Rick Love observesan “unprecedented openness to the gospel amongMuslims,” and remarks that, “more Muslims have cometo Christ in the past 25 years than in the previous 1,400years of missions history combined”!8 In light of the his-tory of mission neglect and the complexity of the Islamicworldview, these developments reflect a positive signthat God is doing something new and powerful inreaching Muslims in these present days.

Most North Americans have historically viewedIslam as a unified monolith of belief and practice. A sin-

gle fabric weaving togethertradition, culture, and cus-toms related to dress, diet,family life, morality, wor-ship, and in some contexts,even economics and poli-tics. The false perceptionprevails that Islam is essen-tially a single monolith ofreligion and culture.

Greg Livingstone arguesagainst the monolithic viewof Islam: The Muslim worldis hardly monolithic. Islamtakes as many differentforms across the world asChristendom. Islam has asmany divisions, denomina-

tions, cults, and sects as those who call themselvesChristian.* Islam is not one. It is as varied in its formsand styles as Christianity. It isn’t any more possible tounderstand Islam’s breadth by grasping the nature of AlQaeda terror strategies than it is to comprehend thebreadth of Christianity by grasping the nature ofTuesday night bingo at St. Christopher’s CatholicChurch. While each provides insight into some under-lying assumptions, neither is adequate as a microcosmreflecting the whole.

Ishak Ibraham comments on “the rich diversity with-in Islam,” observing that, “Muslims are divided intohundreds of ‘homogeneous units’ that differ from eachother geographically, ethnically, ideologically, cultural-ly, and theologically.”9 “The one billion Muslims of theworld speak at least five hundred different languagesand are subdivided into probably 3,500 differenthomogeneous units.”10 Islam may be subdivided intoseveral fundamental groupings. One basic division isthe difference in “formal Islam” and “folk Islam.”11

“According to Phil Parshall, ‘perhaps 70 percent ofall Muslims in the world are influenced by a system wecould properly term folk Islam.’ Conservatively we canconclude that over three-quarters of the Islamic worldare folk Muslims.”12

Another major differentiation within the world ofIslam relates to demographics. Whether Muslims live inrural settings or urban centers makes a huge differencein their worldview and culture, and also in our strate-

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• More Muslims have come to Christ in the past two decades than at any other time in history.

• In North Africa, more than 16,000 Berbers turn to Christ during a two-decade period.

• A Central Asian Church Planting Movement sees 13,000 Kazakhs come to faith in Christ over a decade and a half.

• Up to 12,000 Kashmiri Muslims turn from jihad to the Prince of Peace.

• In an Asian Muslim country, more than 150,000 Muslims embrace Jesus and gather in more than 3,000 locally led Isa Jamaats (Jesus Groups). 7


10 Things That Confuse Me About The AmericanMissionary’s Presentation of World Missions1. We are not naive and backward; instead,

we are your brothers and sisters in Christ.2. You call us backward for having little regard

for your music, no palates for your green salads, no IQs for your advanced technology, and the list goes on.

3. You too quickly get into the action without thinking through the implications on our churches long after you go home.

4. You talk about us to your churches back home in such demeaning ways.

5. You underestimate the effectiveness of our local church leaders.

6. You’re obsessed with picture taking and making videos during our evangelistic programs. It’s really quite embarrassing for us.

7. You conclude that you’re communicating effectively because we’re paying attention when we’re actually just intrigued by watching your foreign behavior.

8. You live so far above our average standard of living and you behave as if you’re still in North America.

9. You’re so concerned over the evil spirits ruling our land when so much evil breeds in your own backyard.

10. You act as if the American church is the true trendsetter for how we should all do church.

(Findings generated from responses of 250 national pastorsin 21 different countries.)

How to Combat the Previous Top 101. GOD-CENTEREDNESS2. EMPOWERING PARTNERSHIPS3. MUTUAL DESIGN4. COMPREHENSIVE ADMINISTRATION5. QUALIFIED LEADERSHIP6. APPROPRIATE TRAINING7. THOROUGH FOLLOW-UPSource: Mission Maker Magazine, 2007


INTRODUCTION

Sometimes the most familiar soil is the hardest to produce fruit because of the frequent foottraffic. It is likewise true that the frequent visiting of a verse often robs it of interest andresearch. Therefore, I climb a steep mountain when I invite you to Matthew 28:18-20because these are some of the most familiar verses in the New Testament and they getmuch traffic when missions is the subject matter of a sermon. My goal is to revisit theseverses and bring out things both old and new. I want to deal with the subject of Missionsunder three headings:

1.) The personnel of Missions or WHO is to go? 2.) The place of missions or WHERE are we to go? 3.) The program of missions or WHAT to do when we go?

I. THE PERSONNEL OF MISSIONS, OR WHO IS TO GO

The Reformers in varying degrees believed theGreat Commission was binding primarily on the apos-tolic church of the first century. This was Martin Luther’sposition. Adding to that he also believed in the imme-diate Second Coming of Jesus and therefore saw littlevalue in developing a worldwide strategy, if in fact Hiscoming was immediate. This position is easily refutedby looking at the last phrase in v.20 “…I am with youalway, even unto the end of the world.” This indicatesthe Great Commission is binding for every age until thelast one ends. This age has far exceeded the apostolicage or that of the primitive church, and now thisresponsibility has come to us.

There are those who believe the Great Commissionis nothing more than additional verses on soul winningand draw no distinction between the GreatCommission and personal soul winning. Those whobelieve this reduce the Great Commission and the obli-gation created for us in Matthew 28 down to individ-ual responsibility and primarily to local implementa-tion. Both personal soul winning and the GreatCommission are high on the agenda for the church, asset by Jesus. There are many similarities, but I do notbelieve the two are synonymous. For instance, Godgave the Great Commission to men who were alreadywitnessing and winning souls locally, indicating theyhad not retired their responsibility because they werewitnessing in Jerusalem. These soul winners weregiven a worldview while they continued their localeffort. To see soul winning at the local level as fulfill-ment of the Great Commission is to overlook the glob-al aspect of the Commission. That thinking has donemuch harm to the world-wide vision given to us by ourLord, mainly because it lets us be satisfied with lessthan He assigned. It is true we should not neglect per-sonal soul winning because of a worldview, as Ibelieve the Christian Missionary Alliance churches did.It is just as true, that we cannot abandon the GreatCommission because we are door knocking soul win-ners. We are not presented an either or option, but“…both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and inSamaria and unto the uttermost...” In addition, it isobvious we are to do both at the same time. Our soulwinning has a starting point, “Jerusalem” and a com-

pletion goal, “the uttermost.” Though many would dis-agree with me and say they have not replaced theGreat Commission with soul winning or confused thetwo, I believe a comparison of the pulpit time allottedto each of these two subjects would suggest otherwise,as would their church budgets. You could never get meto argue against soul winning for I am a soul winnerand a product of soul winning. Nor will you ever getme to accept soul winning as a replacement for theGreat Commission, for Jesus made the distinction.

The Great Commission is binding upon every mem-ber of every local church in the day in which we live.While we do all other phases of the work of the min-istry, we still have responsibility to be an integral partof the Great Commission.

I believe worldview thinking is the right under-standing of these verses and hence should be the basisof all our ministry approach. That doesn’t mean everymember goes to the mission field. It does mean everymember regardless of station or status, age or socialstanding in the body of Christ intentionally order theirlives so as to be impacting the world for Christ. Thecommitment to impact the world may be through goingpersonally, or vicariously by praying and paying forthose that do go, helping have a strong church, byholding the ropes at home, or raising godly seed thatwill go.

The church does have many programs with varyingdegrees of responsibility and value, but only one pur-pose, world evangelism. The programs of the churchserve only to strengthen her and her members so theycollectively can better do her one purpose…worldevangelism. The ministry we use in the church as aresult of His gift bestowment on us should not be seenas the end of our service to Him, but a means to theend - namely world evangelism. As we serve locally,we are contributing to a greater end. We are being apart of a body effort to bring men to Christ globally soGod can be glorified and receive worship by somefrom every tribe and tongue eternally. We need to seethe ministering of our service gifts as contributingtoward worldwide impact. That would give our servicein the church more value and be more satisfying thanjust using it to be a blessing to the membership. TheGreat Commission was not given to individuals exceptas they join with others in the church and enjoy the syn-ergy of that unity.


I I .THE PLACE OF MISSIONS, OR WHERE IS THE GREAT COMMISSION TO BE DONE?

Before examining the “Where” of the GreatCommission, a definition is in order. To understand theGreat Commission as given in Matthew 28 we need tohave a Biblical definition to the word “nation” as usedby our Lord. The Greek word for nation is ethnos, whichsignifies a group with a specific language. So basical-ly, Jesus was saying to go to every language/dialect inthe world with the gospel as opposed to going to everygeo-political country in the world. Students of missionsconsider a group to be a nation in the Bible sense (oras we call them a people group) when there are a largenumber of individuals who have a close relationshipwith one another because of common origin, race, eth-nicity, culture, linguistic background, religion, occupa-tion, etc. We might say it is a nation or people groupwhen information can travel unhindered because of theabsence of cultural and linguistic barriers. Illustration:There are 6.7 billion individuals on earth and theymake up the 24,000 people groups/nations which inturn make up the 236 countries1 in our world.

Matthew’s account of Jesus’ Great Commission isthe first of the five given by our Lord between HisResurrection and Ascension. Though He expands onour geographical responsibility in other places (Mark16, Luke 24 and Acts 1:16), my goal in this messageis to stay with Matthew’s version of the Commission. Iam sure you would agree we should not overlook theother geographical obligations created for us by ourLord—places like the Jerusalem’s, Judaea’s, andSamaria’s of our world. The same Jesus who assignedus those areas of responsibility also gave us “nations”as part of our responsibility in Matthew 28. Our modelmissionary, Paul, made the nations/people groups (theuttermost) a large, but not the only, priority in ministry.Note Romans 15:20-21 “Yea, so have I strived topreach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest Ishould build upon another man’s foundation: But as itis written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shallsee: and they that have not heard shall understand.” Inaddition note II Corinthians 10:16 “To preach thegospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast inanother man’s line of things made ready to our hand.”It seems to me the world is the goal and the unreachednation is the strategy.

Most churches have a place in their mission’s effortfor all other places mentioned by Jesus except theunreached nations (people groups). Though we wantto deny this fact, it is easily proven. Simply check ourfunds allocation. Most churches give an average of .2of 1% of their mission’s dollar to evangelize theunreached while giving 99.8 % to reach the reached.On the other hand, check the deployment of our mis-sion personnel and we will discover it is embarrass-ingly out of balance. To prove this point, just visit theaverage church missionary display area and you willnotice we are sending most of our missionaries wheremissionaries already are. Paul called this boasting inanother man’s line of things made ready to our hand.It is not wrong to send missionaries to already estab-lished fields, but it is not enough, nor is it fulfilling HisCommand, and it’s certainly not following the Paulinepattern (see Romans 15:20-21, II Cor. 10:13). Thethird piece of evidence against us in showing our neg-lect of the nations (people groups) is we do not hearmuch praying being done on behalf of the part of ourworld still unreached. (The truth is that we do not hearenough prayer for any of our mission projects.)

Jesus said to go to the nations (diverse language/dialect areas), and Paul put a great emphasis in hisministry on the nations places that had not seen norheard the gospel. He traveled to about 100 cities inActs and described his ministry approach to missionsin Romans 15:20,21 and II Corinthians 10:9-15. Canwe claim to be a New Testament church and not dowhat Jesus said and what Paul modeled in his GreatCommission effort? The question should not be towhich foreign country are you going, but to what peo-ple group, nation, or ethno-linguistic group? We canbecome bogged down in semantics and theologicaltechnicalities debating over definitions and the ety-mology of words, but I think even your interpretation ofJesus’ assignment in Matthew 28 is for us to go into theunreached Gentile world where there is no gospel,Bible or church. Should not we let His command andPaul’s example play a large part in the ministryapproach of our missionary effort? With the commandof Christ and the example of Paul, shouldn’t you andyour church add “the unreached nations” to the placesyou are trying to penetrate with the glorious gospel ofJesus Christ and let that be reflected in our praying,personnel deployment and funds allocations?

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It is estimated of the 24,000 people groups in theworld, only 6000 are still unreached (without a self-governing, self-propagating and self-sustainingchurch). Added to that, we have 12,000 fundamentalindependent Baptist churches in North America alone,which means we have twice as many churches in ourcountry as there are unreached people groups in theworld. Could each local church partner with a sisterchurch and those two labor together to benefit oneunreached people group? Finally let’s look at the pro-gram.

III.THE PROGRAM OF MISSIONS, ORWHAT TO DO WHEN WE GO?

This is a much disputed area in world evangelism.We may or may not be sending personnel to theunreached but we would pretty much agree that weshould. What is to be done when we get there hasalways been hotly contested and much disputedbecause it revolves around the use of or non-use ofnationals and to what degree do we involve them. Thequestion arises, “What are we to teach them?”Obviously, we are to teach them the doctrinesof Christ: “Teaching them to observe all thingswhatsoever I have commanded you…” (Matt. 28:20).Was not world evangelism, a large part of what ourLord taught the apostles? So what should we teach thenations about reaching the still unreached?

Why should we think they could not fill a mean-ingful place in the Great Commission? They are savedas we are; they have the same Bible we have; theyhave gifts bestowed upon them by the Holy Spirit aswe do; they can claim the promises of Scripture like wecan; they also have responsibility to be obedient to theFather and His Son as we do. They can have thepower of the Holy Spirit which is for worldwide wit-nessing as we can (Acts 1:8; 10:47). They are part ofHis church to which the Great Commission was givenas we are. Don’t we rob ourselves of a mighty workforce by side-lining them after they make the team?

I think enough has been said to answer our ques-tion: ”What should we do when we get there?” Theanswer: Disciple them into positions of leadership intheir local church with a future goal of them taking theirplace in world evangelism, trusting them to God. (Ibelieve the core of the Great Commission is disciple-ship, another sermon for another time.) We need to seetheir churches as sources of funds, personnel, and

prayer. I believe we have been sold a useless bridgewhen we were told, and believed, that the nationalcannot be trusted. Who is it we are not trusting, themor the Spirit of God in them? This may be too simplis-tic. We could agree that bringing the national into theworldwide harvest needs much discussion, and morerefinement than I can give it here. Nevertheless we doneed a mindset that allows, nay requires, them to stopbeing receptor churches and have a goal for them tobecome indigenous local churches, sending missionar-ies supported by their culture and having a biblicalworldview with all of the privileges and responsibilitiesof a sending church. In my opinion, not including thenational in the Great Commission is the highest form ofracism. Are we not saying that the national does nothave the mentality, character and abilities to be devel-oped to a level where they can be trusted with it? Arewe robbing them of maturity into the stature of Christ?Will not this cause them the loss of rewards at theJudgment Seat of Christ because they will not have fruitfrom the world harvest to lay at His feet?

In summary, Who should go? Every member, eitherpersonally or vicariously should go. Where should wego? Into all the world, which includes the nations or un-reached peoples which make up half of our world.What should we do when we get there? Disciple theminto ascending levels of maturity with an eye on theirresponsibility to the Great Commission involvement,privilege and responsibility. ❖

1 A country is used here as a nation with physical boundaries,roads, tax system, government, military, etc.

Dr. Mike Norris is the pastor of Franklin Road BaptistChurch which has grown under his leadership to an averageattendance of 1500. He serves as Vice President of theTennessee Association of Christian Schools and is on theCooperative Board of the Sword of the Lord. The church ispresently in a $3 million building expansion program.FirstBible International is now a ministry of Franklin RoadBaptist Church.

uring a 2005 trip to Mongolia, plans were laidfor the ministry of FirstBible International ofMongolia. These plans would include a printingministry, a Mongolian translation of theScriptures and a Bible Institute. God providen-

tially brought into our path some good men with whomto work and see these goals accomplished.

On Monday, November 6, 2006, Dr. Charles Keen,Ken Fielder, William Jeffcoat, Eric Lee and Jason Priskboarded an Aeroflot Airline bound for the capitol city ofUlanBaatar, Mongolia. After nearly eighteen hours flyingtime and several more hours of layovers, we arrived atapproximately 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

The goal of this trip was three-fold. First, to dedicatethe printing press. Second, to solidify the establishmentof a translation committee for the Mongolian Scriptures.Third, to establish the Bible Institute. The Printing Ministry

In the spring of 2006, two 40’ containers wereshipped to UlanBaatar loaded with over $100,000.00worth of equipment — all that was necessary to set up afully functional printing operation. This ministry has thesupport of the Prime Minister of Mongolia who was eagerto see a Bible printing operation established in his country.

God provided a building to house the equipmentthrough Missionary Mitch Tillman. With the help of JeffKruchkow and others, the press was set up and broughtto operational status.

On Tuesday, November 14, it was our privilege tohold a dedication service for the print shop. Among sev-eral others who attended was Bro. Mickey Cofer who isthe Director of FirstBible International of Mongolia andwill oversee this ministry. Jeff Kruchkow plans to return inJune for a six month stay with the purpose of trainingsome Mongolian men to operate the press. Mitch Tillmanwill oversee the daily operation of the shop.

We look forward to printing Mongolian Scriptures.We also desire to take advantage of the strategic locationof Mongolia. Nestled between Russia, the Central AsianRepublic and China, it will provide a shipping center fordistributing Scriptures to these areas of great darkness.

Continued funding will be needed for the daily oper-ational costs, shipping and paper supply. If you are inter-ested in helping with this need, please notify theFirstBible office. The Mongolian Translation

God has allowed us to partner with some men whoalso desire to give the Mongolians a reliable and accu-rate translation of the Scriptures. Jason Muller agreed tobe the Translation Committee Chairman. Serving withhim on the committee are American missionariesMatthew Patenaude, Roland Gay and Jeff Dean.Tomorkhyag, a Mongolian man is also assisting.

The Gospel of John has been translated and is in theediting stages. Upon its completion, our immediate goalis to print the Gospel of John for every family unit inMongolia (about 500,000).The Bible Institute

One of the major platforms of FirstBible is the train-ing of nationals. The Lord has worked through MartinWhite to establish two successful churches in UlanBaatarwhich are now under national leadership. Bro. Whitewill now devote much of his time to the establishing of aBible Institute for the training of nationals who will reachtheir own people as well as be sent out to the neighbor-ing countries. The five “stan” countries of the CentralAsian Republic are in desperate need of the gospel.Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan andTajikistan have almost no missionary presence. Hovsgol Baptist Church

In the region of Khatgal, the village of Hovsgol islocated at the southern tip of a lake that is eighty miles inlength. The northern end of the lake lies just short of theRussian border. Mickey Cofer labored among these peo-ple for three years, starting in Genesis and teaching all theway to Revelation in order to make God known to manywho had never heard His name. It was our privilege to offi-cially charter Hovsgol Baptist Church. There were morethan sixty people packed into a small ger (round tent) forthe service. More than thirty of them had accepted JesusChrist and they were officially organized into a church.They have now rented a building inside the village and onthe Sunday before Christmas, there were over 300 inattendance. The work God has done through Bro. Cofer isamazing. One can easily see the good hand of God uponhis ministry. Goals Being Accomplished

These events and projects are a reflection of the threemajor goals of FirstBible: Bible Publishing, NationalTraining and Church Planting. We give glory to God forwhat He is doing in the country of Mongolia for thegospel’s sake. Our prayer is that it will become a modelfor other countries. A documentary DVD of this ministryeffort in Mongolia will soon be available. If you are inter-ested, you may contact the office and request a copy. ❖

by Ken Fielder

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This Is BIG!Mitch Tillman, Director of Harbor Evangelism of Mongolia,one of our fellowshipping partners, sends the followinginformation:“We were able to get our government permit to operatethree legal churches in the Gobi Desert. We are the firstfundamental Baptist believers that have ever been permittedto have a church in the Mongolian Gobi. That is a miraclein itself. God is great! Now we can go unrestricted in allthe Gobi and preach the gospel. It is a true blessing thatGod is allowing us to be pioneers in reaching the nomadsof Mongolia with the Gospel of Christ. Praise the Lord.”

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A. The Unevangelized Non-Christian World has:38 Countries (26 closed/restricted-access)29% of global population.1% of all Christian literature.1% of all Christian radio and television.2% of all witness words

B. The Evangelized Non-Christian World has:59 Countries (31 closed/restricted-access)38% of global population9% of all Christian literature4% of all Christian radio and television16% of all witness words

C. The Christian World has:141 Countries (29 closed/restricted-access)33% of global population91% of all Christian literature96% of all Christian radio and television84% of all witness words

A breakdown of the major religions:Christian 2 Billion, 235 MillionBuddhist 367 Million, 200 ThousandHindu 1 Billion, 21 MillionMuslim 1 Billion, 285 MillionTribal 223 Million, 300 Thousand

Missionary InformationChristianity 796 Non Christians per Missionary Buddhist 176,150 Non Christians per MissionaryHindu 177,074 Non Christians per MissionaryMuslim 296,786 Non Christians per MissionaryTribal 69,058 Non Christians per Missionary


God wants every soul to learnof His Son and we are makingsome marked progress.China’s Christian populationhas grown from three million toan estimated 100 million.Indonesia, the largest of theMuslim nations, is approaching20% of its population identify-ing with Christ. Mongolia, withno known believers in 1980,today has thirty thousand with150 churches. South Korea ispoised in the next few years tobecome the first predominatelyProtestant nation in Asia.South America had 50,000Protestants in 1900. Todaythere are sixty million profes-sions to Christianity. Africa hadonly 4% of its population claim-ing Christ one hundred yearsago. Today they have a stag-gering 300 million more peo-ple serving God.

• 2 billion, 180 Million of the 6.4 Billion profess Christianity

• 56% of all professing Christians are non-white

• Spanish is the language of church members in the world

• Christian theology, witness, and worship is done in more lan-guages than any world religion.

Christian (Professions) by Contenient

Asia 356 Million

Europe 555 Million

Africa 437 Million

North America 277 Million

South America 528 Million

Oceania 27 MillionThese statistics are from Mission Maker Magazine 2007.

gies to reach them. Approximately 400 millionMuslims are living in Muslim-dominated cities acrossNorth Africa, the Middle East, and Central, South, andSoutheast Asia, whose people are still without their firstchurch. Other diversities within Islam include its divi-sion into its two primary branches: Shiite and Sunni.There is also the differentiation into those nationswhere Sharia law is obligatory and those whereSharia law is not obligatory.

Based upon the diversity of language, culture andphilosophies of life with the Muslim population, it isincumbent on us in our evangelisms efforts to havevariety. Our variety cannot violate Scripture but at thesame time must be culturally sensitive. We need torelate without losing our Christian distinctive. A fineline to be sure, but a necessary one. ❖

1 Rick Love, Muslims, Magic and the Kingdom of God: Church Plantingamong Folk Muslims (Pasadena: William Carey Library, 2000), p. 45.

2 Ibid. p. 98.3 Greg Livingstone, Planting Churches in Muslim Cities: A Team Approach

(Grand Rapids, Baker Book House, 1993), p. 41.4 Ralph D. Winter and Steven C. Hawthorne, eds., Perspectives on the

World Christian Movement, 3rd ed., (Pasadena: William Carey Library,2000), p. 646.

5 Livingstone, p. 35.6 Mohit Gupta, “Servants in the Crucible: Findings from a Global Study

on Persecution and the Implications for Sending Agencies and SendingChurches” (paper presented at Columbia International University duringthe course, A Missiology of Suffering: Witness and Church Planting inthe Midst of Persecution, Columbia, South Carolina, 23 -27 January2006).

7 David Garrison, Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeminga Lost World, (Midlothian: WIGTake Resources, 2004), p. 99.

8 Love, p. 198.9 Winter and Hawthorne, p. 648.10 Ibid.11 Love, p. 22.12 Ibid.

FirstBible International does not necessarily endorse the materials listed above.

* emphasis added

Muslims and Missions continued from page 6

Language Projects UpdateFrom its beginning, FirstBible International established a three-fold ministry goal: Bible Publishing, NationalTraining and Church Planting for the unreached people groups in the uttermost. God has allowed FBI to seegreat advances for the gospel in each of these areas.

We have partnered with several wonderful missionaries who are church planters among the unreached.God has brought experienced men into our ministry who are helping to coordinate the training of nationals onthe mission field, including the founding of a Bible Institute in Mongolia with the goal of training men to enterthe unreached nations of the Central Asian Republic.

Much progress has also been made in the area of Bible publishing. We have taken part in several Bibletranslation projects for languages previously without the Scriptures. We have received and disbursed almost aquarter of a million dollars. This effort has been directed toward the following languages and people groups:

We are thankful for the contributions of churches and individuals who have caught the vision and burdenfor the unreached. Please continue to partner with us as we strive together for the faith of the gospel. Our prayeris that because of these new translations, there will be many souls saved and God will be glorified eternally bysome from all of these people groups.

Bengali (India/Bangladesh)Chiru (India)

Falam Chin (Myanmar)Hakha Chin (Myanmar)

Malawi (Africa)

Manipuri (India)Marathi (India)

Mizo (India)Mongolian (Mongolia)

Paite (India)

Ranglong (India)Simte (India)Tamil (India)

Thai (Thailand)Zobya (Myanmar)



In the next several issues of the Unpublished WORDJournal we will be giving our readers a sketch of the lifeof William Carey, “Father of Modern Missions.”

arey, like Esther, had come to his kingdom forsuch a time as this. He, like Esther, was affect-ed by the times in which he lived as well as

affecting the times in which he lived. It is evident Godwas both preparing a man for a world and a world forthat man. We would agree with Sir G. A. Smith,“Carey was one of the greatest of God’s Englishmen.”Carey was born during a general period of time whena world was waking up to itself.

The explorer Captain Cook was making entriesinto his log book of places like the Pacific Isles, NewZealand and New Holland, which only served to fireCarey’s worldview.

Preachers like Whitefield, and the Wesley brotherswere recalling England back to God. While mission-aries under the Moravians were sending out men toLabrador and the West Indies, other missionaries weregoing to The Gold Coast of Africa, Sierra Leone, South

Sea and Bengal. The great hymn writers like Watts,Cowper, Newton and Toplady were putting the songsof Zion back into the hearts of men. Revivals werebreaking out in lands across the sea like America andScotland.

Politicians like Wilberforce were fighting for free-dom of the slave and to make education available tothe young and the poor. Economists led by AdamSmith were wrestling with international economicalphilosophies and how they interrelate and affect boththe nation’s and the world’s monetary strength while atthe same time colonalization was enlarging the world-view for England and its international trade and travelactivities. Modern inventions of machinery and discov-ery of new uses of chemical, electricity and steam werebeing introduced into the social and cultural needs ofEngland changing the lives of its citizens forever.

The theological scene was changing as Hyper-Calvinism, through the preaching of men like RobertHall and Andrew Fuller, was giving way to capriciouspresentations of the gospel and churches were begin-ning to cooperate in spiritual efforts and prayer.

Truly, Carey had “come to the kingdom for such atime as this,” as surely as God had the Roman worldprepared for Paul to be the first church sent missionary.God had the English world in which Carey came pre-pared for his becoming the “Father of ModernMissions.” Neither Paul nor Carey left their world asthey found it. It was in the fullness of time for Jesus andin lesser ways for Esther, Paul, Carey and us. ❖

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We have a com-mand given to us byour Lord to “go yeinto all the world,and preach thegospel to every crea-ture.” That divinecommand precedesand supersedes anypolitical restrictionauthored by manthrough his laws. Weare to be law abid-

ing citizens unless the law cancels our obedience tocommands of God. Half of the world sits behindnational borders restricting our ability to obey God ingoing into all the world. Peter said, “We ought to obeyGod rather than men.” The following are some prelim-inary thoughts on reaching the restricted billions.

Where it is obvious if we can’t obey the Lord Jesusand do the Great Commission through conventionalmeans, we must be dedicated to the task and haveenough love of God to become creative. I Samuel17:39-40 “…and David put them (amour) off him andhe took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smoothstones (creative)…and he drew near to the Philistine.”That was not the way of the day to do battle. Normallya soldier clad in full body armour would challenge theresistant forces. David, realizing it must be done butknowing it would not be done conventionally, becamecreative and chose five smooth stones. We need to belike David and purpose in our hearts if we can’t do itby presently accepted methods, we must do it withunconventional ones. If we can’t evangelize by givingthem what they need (gospel), we will do it by givingthem what they want (US dollars). While there, we willgive them what they need.

FirstBible International through EconomicEvangelism (EE) has developed the following strategywhich would involve a five member (stones) team:

Team Five

1. Team Member One - The PastorIf the program involves a church member we would

ask the pastor be an integral part of the team. Webelieve he is the UnderShepherd of His sheep and allthings should be done in and through the church withhis approval, support and direction. His input wouldinclude but not be limited to the following: he wouldperiodically interface with the other four team mem-bers. He alone would have final approval and/or vetopower. He would approve the other members to be onthe team. He would sign off on all meetings and strate-gies. FBI realizes we are a servant ministry helping thechurch and assisting the pastor and church in theirworld evangelism assignment.

2. Team Member Two - The Estate Planner His contribution will be to help FirstBible

International make the church’s entrepreneurial mem-ber aware of the existence and need of such an activ-ity, which we call Economic Evangelism, (EE). This canbe done through preaching on Economic Evangelismfrom the pulpit and/or in group and individual plan-ning seminars.

The Estate Planner could be supplied by FirstBibleInternational or could provide council for the churchprovided one. Either way he would contribute his timein the area of his expertise. This person could be any-body who gives guidance in financial areas such as: abanker, tax consultant, estate planner, etc. They wouldknow of people who need creative and legal ways todispense wealth so as to avoid tax consequences whilehelping other good causes like gospel propagation butmay have never thought about such possibilities. Ofcourse they traffic in confidential information thatwould not be shared with FBI until and when a decisionwas made to become involved in its ministry.

3. Team Member Three - The LawyerHis contribution is to get the company legally reg-

Goal: To Penetrate RestrictedCountries with the Gospel

Strategy: Establish For ProfitBusinesses

Scripture: I Samuel 17:33-40

Model: Available uponrequest

Team Members: A Pastor,An Estate Planner, A Lawyer, A Missionary, An Entrepreneur

by Dr. Charles Keen

istered as a “for profit” company in the host country, todo the necessary legal work in America and be avail-able on an as needed basis.

The Lawyer would contribute his services to keepboth the American parties and the foreign partnerswell within the limits of the law. This person wouldneed to know and understand U.S. law as well asinternational law or have access to others who do. Heshould have some knowledge of tax structure or haveaccess to those who do. He would need to understandhis job is heavy on the front end of the venture andthen reduces to one of maintenance.

4. Team Member Four - The MissionaryHe assumes a management level position in the

newly organized company that the Financier has fund-ed. In addition to his theological training, he should betrained in whatever specialized skills are necessary tomake it a profitable venture. The Missionary is in someways making the biggest contribution. Though everymember of the team is in a sacrificing mindset, he isgiving up his country, extended family and localchurch for the cause of Christ, just to name a few of theanimals on his altar. He would need to be all that anyother missionary is to be in addition to having a mindfor business, creativity, and acceptance of specializedtraining in the field of the business venture. He isaccountable first to the Father, then to his sendingchurch and the other members of the team who havemade sacrifices. He would need to raise his supportlike any other missionary. He would not profit finan-cially from the business, which would also be true ofthe Lawyer and Financial Planner.

5. Team Member Five - The EntrepreneurThis person in many ways is key to the EE Ministry

by providing the initial expense of opening the busi-ness and the operating costs until such time it can sup-port itself. Though the gospel must be the primary goal,the Entrepreneur would become the recipient of anyafter tax dollars when and if it becomes a profitableventure.

This effort he is underwriting should be a “for profit”business venture for three reasons:

First, the host country will be very favorable if theyrealize tax dollars from our presence there.

Second, the for profit businesses can grant visas soas to be able to bring in other employees (othermissionaries) and support help in the business.

Third, “Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadethout the corn.” In other words, it is right for the finan-cial backer to profit from his investment. This finan-cier may bring others of his acquaintance into part-nership in order to accomplish his part of thegospel effort.

Beneficiaries of Team Five’s Ministry Effort:

Beneficiary Number One - God the Father

Team Five’s creative approach to evangelismmeans that God will receive WORSHIP and GLORYeternally by people from whom He would not other-wise be receiving it. His desire is to be worshiped bysome from every tribe, nation, tongue and people. Halfof those by whom He wants to be worshipped arebehind boundaries and barriers out of reach to ourconventional mission efforts. We must travel from theconventional to the creative. We must rethink ourapproach to world evangelism for God’s glory. Wemust think outside the box, if you please. We mustdevelop strategy that garners the most glory for Hiseternal pleasure.

Beneficiary Number Two - The National

The net result of the business(es) established byTeam Five is building relationships with unsaved cus-tomers with whom they deal daily within the culture ofthe host country. What better way to evangelize thanthrough a daily interaction with them in the market-place? As we develop social contacts, we are laying afoundation from which we earn the right to share ourfaith with them and then gradually in their extendedfamily and friendship base. In our EconomicEvangelism (EE) Ministry, we make available to themwhat they want so we can provide for them what theyneed - the gospel. They profit both in time and eternityfrom Team Five’s effort.

Beneficiary Number Three – The Team Five Members

Each of these will be rewarded at the Bema Seatfor their good stewardship that resulted in souls beingsaved and God being glorified eternally because oftheir burden that exceeded the conventional wisdomand led them into unselfish creativity. ❖


Someone once stated that you will be the same person youare today ten years from now except for the books that youread and the people that you meet. There is some truth in thisstatement. The Pastors Book Club is designed to do threethings: give book reviews from the staff of the UW Journal,recommend good books on the subject of missions, and pro-vide a convenient way for pastors to purchase these booksat reasonable prices. FirstBible International and the UWJournal do not necessarily endorse any author, ministry, ororganization associated with books recommended for sale.The books are offered as a source of information andencouragement.

The books below can be purchased by calling the toll free number for Keen Publications at 1-888-747-1611. Please note that shipping and handling is not included in the prices listed below.

Recommended Books For Sale

From Jerusalem to Irian JayaRuth A. TuckerZondervan Publishing$32.99

Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual SecretDr. Howard TaylorMoody Press$6.99

Missions in the Old TestamentWalter C. Kaiser, Jr.Baker Books$11.99

Amy Carmichael of DohnavurFrank L. HoughtonChristian Literature Crusade$12.99

C. T. Studd, Cricketer & PioneerNorman GrubbChristian Literature Crusade$17.98

Missionary Methods, St Paul’s or OursRoland AllenEerdmans$14.00

The Training of the TwelveA.B. BruceKregel Publications$19.99

He Is WorthyCharles KeenKeen Publications$11.00

Thinking Outside the BoxCharles KeenKeen Publications$11.00


Franklin Road Baptist Church – New Home of FirstBible InternationalDr. Mike Norris, Pastor

“I first met Dr. Charles Keen in 1990 while pastoring in Ripley, West Virginia. During breakfast onemorning Dr. Keen shared with me the statistics concerning the unreached part of our world and theunreached people groups. He then challenged me with the question, “Do you think the Great Commissionis do-able?”

This caused me to re-evaluate the Great Commission. I came to the conclusion that it is “do-able” if wesimply carry it out as God commanded. An entirely new dimension was added to my missions philosophywhich impacted me in three significant ways.

First, my view of our church’s global ministry was transformed. We are now purposely including theuttermost in our missions effort. Our missions giving has increased to over $500,000.00 annually and hasbeen adjusted in order to give a greater percentage toward the unreached in the uttermost. Second, my

view of our church’s local ministry was changed. We now view all of our members as potential world-changers and seek todevelop in their hearts a worldview and a sense of responsibility in reaching the unreached. Third, God burdened our churchto become directly involved in getting the Word of God to the world. In 2006 the Lord gave us a 36 inch web press and weconstructed a 6000 square foot building in which to operate it. It will be used to print Scriptures for those who have neverhad a copy of God’s Word in their own language.”

Dr. Greg Baker – Keynote Speaker: Revival for World Evangelism 2008

Dr. Gregory O. Baker is the Pastor of FaithWay Baptist Church and President of FaithWay BaptistCollege of Canada, located in Ajax, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto.

Originally from Michigan, he and his wife Melissa have served the Lord in Canada since 1980.Pastor Baker is known for his enthusiasm for world evangelism and his heart for the Great Commission.

FaithWay Baptist Church presently supports over 175 missionary families with a mission commitment for2007 over $500,000.

The Bakers have two daughters and two granddaughters.

Dr. Mike Norris

Dr. Greg Baker

Ken Fielder, Assistant Director• Assisting the Director in coordinating the daily operations of FirstBible and overseeing the FirstBible office.• Serving as liaison for FirstBible missionaries and ministry partners.• Refining and implementing the policies of FirstBible.• Assistant Editor of the Unpublished WORD Journal.• Representing FirstBible and preaching Mission Revivals in churches in the United States and abroad.• Raising the awareness of the unreached people needs and FirstBible’s need of funds for translation projects.

Wayne Holder, Director of Scripture Publishing• Coordinating Scripture publications both at home and abroad.• Assisting in the selection of language projects and overseeing the entire printing process from start to finish.• Serving as liaison between translators, missionaries and printing operations.• Tracking the progress and funds of all Scripture printing efforts of FirstBible.

Dr. William Jeffcoat, Director of Foreign Field Ministries• Challenging American churches to do short-term mission trips for the purpose of training nationals on the field. • Identifying and selecting FirstBible’s foreign field ministry opportunities for national training.• Coordinating all travel arrangements and costs. • Selecting the teaching curriculum and screening the faculty.• Overseeing the development of prayer support teams for foreign field training.

Dr. Fred Schindler, Director of College Ministries• Ministering in fundamental colleges in America to raise awareness of the ministry and philosophy of FirstBible.• Assisting the Director of Foreign Field Ministries in national training efforts.• Representing both FirstBible and Northeast Baptist Bible College in churches in the United States and abroad. • Serving out of FirstBible of Pennsylvania at Southside Baptist Church in Downingtown, Pennsylvania.

Introducing New Staff and Representatives for FirstBible International


The Librarian’s Choice

WILLIAM CAREY: THE FATHER OF MODERN MISSIONS1993 EDITION

by S. Pearce CareyWakeman Trust

The Librarian’s choice forthis issue is William Carey:The Father of Modern Missions, 1993 edition, byS. Pearce Carey, Carey’s great-grandson. This is one of the two bestbiographies I have in my four thou-sand volume library.*

The author, because of his bloodrelationship with Carey, possessesunusual information and insight andyet retains an honest objectivitytoward his subject and material. Hedoes not bog us down with minisculedetails nor does he gloss over therough waters Missionary Careyexperienced with the East IndiaCompany, the Indian Government,the home office and with four unfaith-ful men who split the Seramporework by establishing a work inCalcutta.

The author gives us a goodinsight to the English world at thetime of Carey’s life and how menand events contributed to his min-istry. He tells us of his family andfriends, not hiding their warts andscars, while giving them their due inCarey’s world impacting ministry.

I was also impressed with Carey’sinsight into the necessity of incorpo-rating the nationals into India’s evan-gelization. It was interesting to methat Carey was a self-supported mis-sionary never requiring nor accept-ing funds from the homeland.

If I were to offer a constructive criticism, itwould be that although S. Pearce Carey recordsan adequate amount about his great grandfather’stranslation work, he is shallow, in my thinking, inhis coverage of the fire that destroyed much of iton Wednesday, March 11, 1812. This book getsThe Librarian’s highest biographical marks; it istemporarily out of print – watch for the reprint.*The other volume is: To the Golden Shore,

The Life of Adoniram Judson.



FirstBible International has several valuable resources that will aidthe pastor and church to mobilize their people for missions. Thesematerials are free as available with love offerings appreciated.You may order these items online at www.firstbible.net.

10/40 Window Placemat

This special placemat isdesigned to use in your

mission banquets. It is 10”x 14” and available in

quantities of 50.

Glossary of Translation Terms

This handy guide will help you understand the wordsand definitions used inthe discussion of Bibletranslations. It is a help-ful, easy to comprehendreference guide for allchurch members.

Unreached People Posters

11” x 17” posters are uniquelydesigned to decorate your auditorium,fellowship hall or classrooms for yournext mission conference/revival or to useas a weekly prayer reminder. There are12 different posters available as a set.

It All Begins with The Word

This informativebrochure describes theburden and goals ofFirstBible Internationalto reach the over 6,000unreached peoplegroups.

It All Begins with The Word

Bookmark

This companion piecedefines the 10/40

Window and lists the66 countries containedwithin it. Use this con-venient 2” x 7” book-mark as a prayer list.

The MongoliaProject DVDFirstBibleInternationaloffers a FREE 30 minute documentary of our trip toMongolia. It isavailable to youat no cost andshipped postagepaid.

c/o Franklin Road Baptist Church3148 Franklin RoadMurfreesboro, TN 37128

A Fundamental Approachto the 10/40 Window

www.firstbible.net

Unpublished Word Journal Spring 2007

Documents

Transcript of Unpublished Word Journal Spring 2007