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May 1, 2020

Why Our Mission Starts with the Church

One of the primary ways God intends to reach the world with the gospel is through the love and witness of the local church.

In a previous post, we saw God’s passion to dwell in the community of His people. There His glory descended in old covenant days. And where does He display His glory and goodness today? In the local church! A unified church bears powerful witness to Jesus. He said, “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35).

A church’s testimony may reach far beyond its local community. A church can send extensions of itself to carry the message where the whole congregation could never go. For example, the church at Antioch had a part in reaching the unreached by sending Paul and Barnabas.

At All-Nations, we help churches send. Before someone joins All-Nations, we often meet with church leaders to discuss the commitment involved. The church forms a small support team to coordinate long-term support in areas like communication, prayer, and logistics. We in turn support the church through regular communication and funding. We also take the lead in directing Bible translation and community development efforts.


In Romans 10, Paul asks, “How shall they go, unless they are sent?” Acts 13 tells us that, after prayer and fasting, Paul and Barnabas were sent out by the Holy Spirit and the church. Can church-planting teams today be sent the same way?

All-Nations rejoices to facilitate that kind of sending.



OUR MISSION
We partner with churches to send teams who facilitate Bible translation and community development while working to establish indigenous churches.

Read about the sending church's role

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This post from two years ago is still relevant: What ABT is Not

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  • “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” Romans 10:17
  • “Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And you are witness of these things.” Luke 24:47, 48
  • “Go therefore, and make disciples of all nations.” Matthew 28:19
  • “In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:3
  • “That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the Gospel.” Ephesians 3:6
  • “That they all may be one; as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us; that the world may believe that You sent Me.” John 17:21
  • “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’?” Mark 11:17
  • “Ask of me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance.” Psalm 2:8
  • “Behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes.” Revelation 7:9
  • “Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified.” 2 Thessalonians 3:1
  • “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3:16
  • “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” Psalm 119:105
  • “As cold water to a weary soul, so is good news from a far country.” Proverbs 25:25
  • “More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.” Psalm 19:10
  • “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before You.” Psalm 22:27
  • “Truly, as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.” Numbers 14:21
  • “Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. For the LORD is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.” Psalm 96:3, 4
  • “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” Habakkuk 2:14
  • “That all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no other.” 1 Kings 8:60
  • “For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; in every place incense shall be offered to My name, and a pure offering; for My name shall be great among the nations.” Malachi 1:11
  • “All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name.” Psalm 86:9
  • “For as the earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” Isaiah 61:11
  • "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!" Psalm 46:10
  • "This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." 1 Timothy 2:3, 4
  • "You are worthy. . .; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God." Revelation 5:9, 10