The Gospel Is Good News for the Whole World

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Well, Trinity Church of Portland, it is a joy to be with you. I have come to love your church from a distance, through my friendship with Thomas and Samuel and Andre, literally talking about your local churches we’ve traveled around the world. And so to be here with you today is just a tremendous pleasure. One of my favorite missionaries in history is a man named John Payton. He was born in 1824 in Dunfreys, Scotland. His autobiography continues to inspire Christians to this day in its herring accounts of his time in the New Hebrides, which is this series of islands that is just southeast of Papua New Guinea. Payton grew up in a home where he heard zealous missionary petitions prayed by his father every night. He said, his father poured out his whole soul with tears for the conversion of the heathen world to the service of Jesus. We all felt as if in the presence of the living Savior. As a young boy, he wondered, if as he listened to these prayers, if he himself had a part to play in the answering of them, missionary seeds planted during simple times of family worship in the house. Parents, the times that you gather around the Word of God in your home can literally change the trajectory of the world. It was during Payton’s daily time in the scriptures and prayer when the Holy Spirit would finally cultivate a heart prepared to set aside local ministry success. He was very successful in his ministry in Glasgow and risked his life to take the gospel to the New Hebrides. The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland had been advertising for a missionary, a missionary to travel to the islands of the South Pacific and Payton resolved to answer this call. See, men had already gone to these islands and they had already died. They had been eaten by cannibals. When he told one of his mentors, Dr. Bates about his desire, he recalled that Bates rejoiced and even wept for joy when he told him. Not everyone would respond with the same enthusiasm. After his conversion, again, he was working as an evangelist in the hard streets of Glasgow and when he communicated this call to foreign missions, while meaning individuals sought to convince him to stay in Glasgow. By predicting that the new Christians that he had been discipling, would go astray if he left for overseas work. When he told his mum and dad of his desire, they replied they had long since given him away to the Lord and then this matter also would leave him to God’s disposal. Wow. At the age of 34, Payton embarked with his new wife, Marianne, for the New Hebrides, it was 1858. Marianne would die within four months of their arrival and just three weeks after their newborn son had died at birth. Payton would suffer hardship, sickness, countless attempts on his life. He persevered and 40 years later. He would see churches planted, the Bible translated, and missionaries living on 25 of the 30 in Habitable Islands in these new Hebrides. People who did not have the gospel, heard the gospel and believed the gospel because someone was sent to preach the gospel. Our text this morning is Romans 10, 9 to 15. Please turn with me there. Starting in verse nine, because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and you believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with a heart one believes and is justified and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the scripture says, everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek. For the same Lord is Lord of all bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him who they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news? It’s the word of the Lord. I think the main point of this passage is that the gospel is good news for the whole world. And so we must believe the gospel, proclaim it and send out others to share it to the ends of the earth. I’m gonna have two points this morning. Number one, the gospel is good news. Number two, in the form of a question, what will you do with the gospel? Okay, so point number one, the gospel is good news. Point number two, what will you do with the gospel? Our passage is found two thirds of the way into this letter that Paul wrote to the church in Rome. He’s hoping to visit the Roman church on his way to Spain and to be helped along the way. In Romans 15, 24, he writes, I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain and to be helped on my journey there by you once I have enjoyed your company for a while. He’s fulfilled the ministry that the Lord had given him from Jerusalem all the way up to Aliracom and now it’s his ambition to preach the gospel. He had had never, had had never been preached. He alludes to unity in the church, that the churches in Macedonia and Akhaya are contributing to the needs of the church in Jerusalem. And he’s on his way to Jerusalem to deliver this aid. And once he makes the delivery, this was way before wire transfers and Bitcoin transfers and the rest. This was literally him taking bags of money to the church in Jerusalem. And after he drops off the money, he’s gonna go to Spain and he’s gonna stop over in Rome so that he can be an encouragement to a church that was struggling with some unity. I think Romans is the greatest support letter that has been written by a missionary. It’s exemplary. Rather than jumping to ask, Paul reminds the Romans of what they have in the gospel. He’s reminding them of the gift of the gospel before he asks them to give out of their Thanksgiving for the advance of the gospel to a place where it had not yet been preached. So a little peculiar this morning, I’m not gonna jump right in at Romans 10 because I wanna do what Paul does in this letter. I want us to rejoice in the glory of the gospel as we look at the book of Romans. And then we’re gonna pause at Romans 10 and spend the rest of our time there. So let’s start in Romans chapter one. And Romans one, Paul opens this letter by expressing his desire to see the Christians in Rome, to fellowship with them, to impart some spiritual gift to them. Even though he’s ultimately bound for Spain, he lets them know he’s excited to spend some time with them and to preach amongst them. He hopes to strengthen the church in Rome. He’s preached the gospel to Jews and Gentiles. He’s under obligation to the Greeks, the city folk and to the barbarians, those that lived on the frontier areas at the edge of the Roman Empire. These were the peoples that when parents wanted to tell their kids stories of the Boogeyman, they told them the stories of the Gauls and all of these other frontier people. Paul isn’t ashamed of the gospel for it is the power of God for salvation. God’s wrath is revealed against ungodliness and unrighteousness. God has shown what could be made known about him through creation, creation boasts of its creator. And yet man has suppressed the truth. God gave men up to their passions and they descended further and further into their sin, exchanging the truth about God for lies and worshiping the creature instead of the creator. Sinful human beings around the world giving to unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness, gossips, slanderers, haters of God, incidental, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, kids, get a load of this one, disobedient to parents. Paul includes that, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Oh, but don’t judge them readers and Romans two Paul writes that in because in passing judgment on their sin, you show your knowledge of the very standard that you yourself fail to live by. See, to be righteous by the law, you would need to keep every single dot in Iota of the law. But in breaking the law, you show that your works have no weight to them at all, your contempt, your circumcision he writes to the Jew means nothing when you’ve broken the law. True relationship with God is a matter of the heart and not of the flesh. Romans three. So what advantage is the law? I love, I love Paul. I love his logic. I love the fact that throughout his letters he’s anticipating people’s responses. He was an incredibly intelligent man and moved by the Holy Spirit, and he’s writing these words. He’s just imagining the pushback. So again, Romans three, what advantage is the law, Paul? And he writes through God’s law, God revealed his nature. That’s an advantage of the law. Through God’s law, one is made aware of the realities of their sin. There’s no one righteous. No Jew, no Gentile. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. And then in this part of the book, he starts to unravel the gift of the gospel. He describes justification to be declared righteous and he says it’s not an outward action. It’s a matter of the heart. Romans four, another question anticipated. Well, what about Abraham? Paul writes, well, if he was justified by his works, he’d have something to boast about. But Abraham wasn’t justified by his works. He was justified by his faith. He was counted righteous before his circumcision. He was justified by his faith, not his works, including his circumcision. And he believed that God’s promise that he would be the father of many nations. It wasn’t through the law that the nations would be ultimately blessed. It was by righteousness, by faith. Simply put, Abraham believed what God had promised. Just as Abraham’s faith in the promise of God was counted to him as righteousness, so will our trust in the promise of God for our salvation, our God who raised Jesus from the dead. When he paid the penalty for our sins, for our transgressions. And then Paul writes, he raised Jesus from the grave for our justification. What does that mean? Jesus was raised for our justification. Well, Jonathan Edwards explains it like this, for if Christ were not risen, it would be evidence that God was not yet satisfied for our sins. Now, the resurrection is God declaring his satisfaction. He thereby declared it was enough. Christ was thereby released from his work. Christ, as he was mediator, is thereby justified. Friends, I wanna be really, really clear with you. Jesus was declared righteous because of his own righteousness. Our justification is different. Hours was earned for us. We did not earn it for ourselves. Romans five, we have been justified, declared righteous through Jesus Christ. We stand righteous before a holy God because of Jesus. We were enemies of God because of our sin. And now because of Jesus, if you put your faith in him, we can have peace with God and we can rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Friends, there’s two more gifts. We can be at peace with God. That is an immense, immense, immense gift. We can rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. We also rejoice in our sufferings, friends. This is such a unique Christian thing to say. We can rejoice in our sufferings. Why? While suffering produces endurance, which produces character, which produces hope, and hope doesn’t put us to shame. So how do we do all of that? It’s another gift to the power of the Holy Spirit who’s been given to us. Christ died for the end of Godly. It’s hard enough thinking of laying yourself down for righteous person, even a good person. But God showed his love for us and while we were sinners, Christ died for us. Death came into the world through Adam. Life came through Jesus Christ. Sin, reigned in death. Grace reigns through righteousness that leads to eternal life. Another gift, eternal life. Roman six, given the power of grace to rule over death and sin, do we continue to sin so that grace abounds even more? Again, he’s anticipating this question. I love Roman six. One of my dearest friends is a man named Tim Watley. Tim jumped out of a helicopter two decades ago amongst a people group that had never yet been contacted by people outside, among, they were called the Moe. And he was with his brother-in-law. They had found this people group, Mission Aviation Fellowship had, in the middle of this jungle in Indonesia, and they’re lowering down in the helicopter. And it gets stuck on a tree, about six feet. It was a smaller tree. So six feet, the helicopter stuck. They can’t go down any further. And the pilot looks over his shoulder and says, you’re gonna have to jump out. And by this time, all the men of the village had run up to this helicopter with spears. They were just standing there looking and he thought to himself, this is like a Jim Elliott moment. If they start throwing the spears, I’m gonna use the helicopter door to protect me and we’ll take off. But now he has to make the life and death decision to jump out of the helicopter. And so he did. And miraculously, the Moe men put down their weapons and walked up to him and started saying, Abba, Abba, Abba, Abba, Abba. Of all the sounds they could make, using one of the names of God, Abba. It would take years for him to recognize what Abba actually meant. It was a weird thing because the men, they would go off on these hunting trips when they had to go to the restroom. They were completely at the mercy of the people they were traveling with. They could be killed. You could kill your rival while he was going to the bathroom. And so Abba meant, I trust you so much that I would trust you to spare my life on a hunting trip while I went to the bathroom, such a weird phrase. But that’s what they told them. And God knew in his kindness and his providence that that word would give them so much faith on the ground in those early days, years down the road, a church was planted amongst the Moe. People came to faith in Christ. They have Moe elders now. There are Moe people now being trained to go to other people groups, to share the gospel and do Bible translation. It is a marvelous, marvelous work. When Tim was teaching through the book of Romans for the very first time, he stopped at Romans five one evening. And he said, we’ll pick up in Romans six tomorrow. And they went to bed in about two or three in the morning. He hears this commotion out in the garden. And he walks out and there’s these two older men. And they said, Tim, Tim, we have to get the village back together and he said, what’s wrong? And they said, Tim, we’re worried that if you don’t teach further, people are gonna start killing themselves. Like, what do we do? If grace is so good, then people are gonna start murdering each other so we can get more grace. That’s the argument that Paul is anticipating in Romans five into Romans six. He has laid out how glorious God’s grace is, that the natural conclusion at the end of Romans five is, well, if grace is so good and sin gets covered with grace, do I just keep sinning so that grace comes more and more? That is how wonderfully transcultural the Bible is, that people who had never heard it before came to that conclusion. 2,000 years after these words were written to the church in Rome. So, Romans six, given the power of grace to rule over death, do we continue to sin so that grace abounds even more? Paul says, no, Jesus was raised and walked from his grave. We have been raised from our sin and his Christians, we now walk in righteousness. We are dead to sin and alive in Christ. We are no longer slaves to sin. We are slaves to righteousness. Don’t let sin reign in your life. Fight it. Live your life as those who have been brought from death to life. You once lived in impurity and unrighteousness. Your sins led to even more sins. And now freed from your sin, your righteousness, your justification leads to sanctification. It’s another glorious gift of the gospel. And your sanctification leads to eternal life, which is a free gift of God made possible by Jesus Christ. Romans seven. So is the law bad then? No, Paul writes. It’s useful in showing the fruit of unrighteousness. The law isn’t the problem. Our sinful flesh is the problem. We are tempted to sin as we daily wage war against our flesh. We are so wretched in our sins. Who can save us from this body of death? The end of Romans seven, it just feels kind of hopeless. Even as Christians, we’re still fighting our sin. I don’t know if you’re anything like me. But there are days where I’m just like, Lord, I am so ready for you to come back. I’m so sick of my sin. I’m so sick of my flesh. So who can save us from this body of death? Romans eight. Jesus. Jesus fulfilled the righteous requirements of the law on our behalf. And as Christians, the spirit of God that raised Jesus from the dead now lives in us. Not only that, but we are sons of God in heirs with Christ. Two more gifts. When’s the last time that you reflected Christian on the fact that you are a son or daughter of God? Such a good gift. We are heirs with Christ. I marvel at this. I think it’s so interesting that God chose to just keep gift after gift upon us. It would have been miraculous if he had just saved us from our sins. But he’s given us Christ’s righteousness. And now he’s made us heirs with Christ. Like we get to inherit things with Christ. This is incredible news. But then he writes, suffering will come. After all, Jesus suffered. Suffering are incomparable to the glory that awaits us. If you’re going through suffering right now, friend, you have a promise that there is a glory awaiting you. And it’s not in this life. It’s in the life to come. The spirit will help us in our weakness. Christ, Christian, be assured, all things work together for your good. Those whom God for new, those whom he chose, saying, mine before the foundation of the world was laid, those whom he predestined, he also called, those whom he called, he also justified, those whom he justified, he also glorified. All of the suffering in these mortal bodies, all of the fighting with our sinful flesh, they will be gone. If God is for us, who will be against us? Friend, that’s another gift of the gospel. God is for you. He looks at you and says, I am for you. And in the midst of your suffering, which he has sovereignly ordained, he is saying, it’s for your good. All of the suffering in our mortal bodies, all of our fighting with our sinful flesh, one day it will be gone. If God is for us, who can stand against us, nothing can separate us from God’s love. Not tribulation, not distress, not persecution, not nakedness, not sword, not death or angels or demons or rulers, nothing in all of creation can separate you from God’s love. He’s writing to a suffering people where the sword was a reality in their lives. And he said, friends, not even the sword can separate you from God’s love. How glorious is it that our infinitely strong God promises us he’s going to be with us. And we can take that to the bank. He will always be with us. Why? Because nothing can get in his way. Nothing can get in the way of his love. And Romans 9, Paul now pivots to his heart for Israel. It’s the beginning of these few chapters that people just really wrestle with theologically. Still to this day. I don’t have time to get into all of the mysteries of Romans 9 to 11. Paul in Romans 9 points to Israel having adoption. They had the glory of being the chosen people. They had the law. They had been given the opportunity to worship the one true God. They were the people of Christ, but not all of Israel was saved. God chooses whomever he desires. He says, does he not have that right? But it isn’t only the people of Israel that were to be heirs of the promise. Some Gentiles have been chosen too. This had been prophesied in the Old Testament. So, Hosea prophesied that those who were not my people, I will call my people. Unless you were Jewish, friend, that is a promise for us. The new covenant ushered in all of God’s promises for all of humanity. Isaiah prophesied too. Many prophets foretold what was coming. Gentiles who didn’t have the law have attained righteousness by faith. The people of Israel who were given the law didn’t succeed in attaining righteousness and they were so consumed by their own works of the law that they missed the Messiah. As he perfectly fulfilled the law in their view. In the beginning of chapter 10, Paul begins by expressing his desire for the people of Israel to be saved. He explains that Israel was ignorant as to who God was. They didn’t understand how good and holy and righteous he truly was and so they convinced themselves that they needed to establish their own righteousness. They did not submit to God’s righteousness. They did not look forward with faith to the promised Messiah who would perfectly fulfill the law. They were so consumed again with perfect obedience to the law even pursuing a righteousness that exceeded the laws because they were adding to God’s commands that they missed Jesus. The leaders of Israel watched Jesus. They heard his teaching. They tried to catch up him breaking the law. They associated him with Satan and when they had enough of him and couldn’t bear him anymore, they asked the Roman occupiers to crucify him. The whole Old Testament was pointing to at times shouting loudly about the promised Messiah, the suffering servant, the root of Jesse, the son of David. Jesus would be the end of law for righteousness. Hear this for everyone who believes. Righteousness is available, not by works, but by believing, by faith. See, if you’re gonna live by the law, you have to live by it perfectly. Kids, I don’t know if you’ve ever tried this in your head. I did it when I was a kid and I still catch myself doing it now. How long can I go without sinning? You know what the problem is with my heart? Every time I ask myself that question and it’s been more than a few minutes, I get a little puffed up with pride and whoops, sin. It’s impossible to keep the law. Righteousness is so close and then Paul leads into our passage this morning because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. All of history had led to this point, the choosing of Israel, the giving of the law. Sacrificial law, ceremonial law, dietary law, circumcision, all of it. All of the law was given as an arrow pointing towards the only person born of woman, the promise seed of Genesis three who would perfectly fulfill the law and crush the serpent. The true and better Adam, the true and better Moses, the true and better David, the promised Messiah, the suffering servant, the conquering hero, the son of God. God loved us so much. He gave his only son that whoever believes in him will not perish but will have eternal life. The son of God who lived a perfect life and died to pay a sacrifice for our sins. Paul says, if you confess him as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Look with me at chapter 10, verse 10. Says, with the heart one believes and is justified and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. If we’re not careful though, our sinful flesh always looking to take credit where we don’t deserve it will say, aha, I believed, I did that. I put my faith in Jesus Christ. Friends, with all due respect, dead people can’t bring themselves back to life. And Ephesians 2, we know that we were dead in our trespasses and sins. Following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind and we’re by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind. But God being rich and mercy because of the great love with which He loved us, even while we were dead and our trespasses made us alive together with Christ and then Paul writes in Ephesians 2, it’s by grace you have been saved. Friend, your dead heart was transplanted with a new heart. You believed in your heart and you were justified, you were declared righteous. You’re formally lying, stammering tongue, confess Jesus as Lord as you were saved from your sin. All of that was done because God supernaturally, miraculously gave you a new heart. Your very desire to want to follow Him was a gift to you. This is like the best news ever, which brings me to my second point, friend, what will you do with the gospel? Starting in verse 14 of Romans 10, how then can they call on the one whom they have not believed in and how can they believe in the one whom they’ve never heard and how can they hear without someone preaching to them and how can anyone preach unless they’re sent as it is written, how beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news. If you call on the Lord, you will be saved. Some of you today need to call on the Lord. Maybe as you’ve listened this morning, you can resonate with the futility of a works-based righteousness. I love the fact that God and His kindness had today’s catechism question there. There’s nothing we can add. Maybe as you’re listening, you’re realizing you’re at the end of your rope. You’ve realized that you cannot save yourself. You are tired, you are weary, you are worn, you have chased after the world, and you have found time and time and time again, it over-promises and under-delivers. You have chased your own righteousness, but your conscience condemns you, because try, as you may, you know you are failing at perfection. Friend, hear these words. Jesus came and perfectly fulfilled the law. Every bit of it, He lived a sinless life and died on a cross to bear God’s wrath as a sacrifice for the sins of those who would put their trust in Him. So would you please trust in Him. Call on Him. He will save you. This infinitely powerful God. His grace is infinite. And whatever sin that you feel like He cannot save you from, He can save you from. Believe in Him. Paul writes, how will they call on Him and whom they have not believed? Some of you may have heard this gospel at one time or another. Perhaps you’ve grown up at this very church, or in a Christian family. Maybe you’ve heard the gospel many times. But if you’re honest with yourself, you are still trying to reach a level of righteous behavior because you think then God will actually accept you. If you attend church here every Sunday, if you do all the right things and forsake, all of the wrong things, if your life only looks morally better than everyone else’s, then God will be pleased to accept you. Friend, you will never, ever, ever meet the righteous requirement of the law. That’s the bad news. The good news is that if you put your faith in Jesus Christ, you will not only be saved from the penalty of your sin, but you will be counted righteous with Jesus. When Jesus was raised from the dead, God was declaring his satisfaction in his son. He was saying that debt had been paid and a voice declared, this is my son and whom I am well pleased as Jesus was raised out of the waters of baptism. That’s what God was saying about Jesus when He raised him from the grave. This is my son and whom I am well pleased. Perfect spotless righteousness is there for you if you put your faith in Jesus. So would you believe in Him? Paul goes on to write, how are they to believe in Him in whom they have never heard? We’ve already reflected on the fact this morning that the people of Israel had heard. They were given the law, they were given priests, they were given the prophets, they were without excuse. If you’re sitting here today and you had never heard the gospel before, you’ve heard the gospel. What are you going to do with it? Well, what about those who have never heard the gospel? Statistics today estimate that there are over three billion people with a B, billion, who don’t have access to the gospel. They don’t know a Christian. There isn’t a church in their neighborhood. Most of them don’t even have the Bible in their language. I have visited cemeteries with your pastors. It’s just something we end up doing in all the cities we visit. And I have cried with your pastors as we have looked at the graves of people who never heard the gospel. And it’s too late. They’re dead. They’re facing eternal damnation. And then we leave those graveyards and we are surrounded by millions of people that unless people go and share the gospel with them, their fate will be the same. That’s why Romans 1 is so important. God and his economy has given everybody knowledge of him, sufficient to condemn them. The more people that my friend Tim went and visited, they believed in a creator God. How do untouched peoples believe in a creator God because you can’t help but look at creation and say someone must have created this. Think about the glories of the gospel that we’ve sung about and read about today. But to those without access to the gospel, Carl Henry once said it’s good news only if it gets there on time. The old covenant with Israel was replaced with a new covenant when Jesus died and rose from the grave. And this new covenant, one in which there’s no distinction between Jew and Gentile, offers salvation to anyone who would put their trust in Jesus Christ. But how would one call on Jesus and believe in him if they haven’t even heard of him? In Acts 1, 8, Jesus commands the apostles and to this day the church to take the gospel out there to the furthest reaches of the world. It is good news to salvation to all who believe. And one can only believe if they hear. Then Paul goes on and writes, and how are they to hear without someone preaching? Someone isn’t going to hear the gospel unless someone tells them the gospel. It’s that simple. The good news must be told. It must be proclaimed. In recent years, there’s been this focus on incarnational ministry with this idea that perhaps you just show people the gospel. Good deeds are performed so that people can see Jesus. But Paul doesn’t say how are they to see without someone showing. He says how are they to hear without someone preaching? Telling, proclaiming. True evangelism is to communicate the gospel, always with words. And friends, remember you can’t bring dead people back to life. Only God can do that by the power of His Holy Spirit. So we preach the gospel and then we pray. And we let the Lord do His work. You want to see the gospel go forth to the ends of the earth. Start praying. Start praying. Pray with your kids around the table like John Payton’s parents did. Pray with your church. Pray with your friends. Bag of God to make His goodness known and His excellencies known to people who do not yet know Him. There are people in Indonesia, India and Vietnam and Papua New Guinea and Chad and Japan and Turkey and Egypt and so many other places who don’t have access to the gospel. More than praying, would you be willing to go? It’s going to be hard. You will suffer. But you serve a king who’s also the suffering servant. His mission led him to a cross to die for you. What will you do with the gospel? Will you consider going? Recent research says that there are 3,000 languages as far as we can tell that have never heard the gospel before. Now some of those languages are dying out, meaning majority languages are coming and kind of taking over the language because of schooling and so forth. But there are thousands of languages where that’s not going to happen. Unless someone goes and dedicates their life to preaching the gospel in that language, those people are never going to hear it. Perhaps the Lord is placing in you a heart for work amongst the church where there is a Bible already translated in a city full of people where they could walk into a shop and buy a Bible. But there’s a fledgling church and they’re calling out for help. If that’s you, I know your pastors would love to talk to you about what it would look like to give your life and go overseas. Perhaps some of you might go to a place where missionaries have been in the past or churches have been in the past. In the vast under-churched and under-resourced cities across Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe. Would you consider?