I said, “I really admire what you’re doing and will pray for you as you head to an area with such an important Great Commission need.” I was heading to the Land of the Monogrammed. I felt like I was taking the easy road and Matt was taking the courageous one, leading his family to an area where preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ would be just barely harder than finding a Republican. There’s Matt packing up his family and entire life to move to one of the most secularized regions in A merica, and I am going back home, where I will live ten miles from the Georgia state line and less than an hour from Alabama. He was moving to Northern California to join the staff of a local church. I was excited to be heading home until I saw my neighbor from our seminary apartment complex, Matt. I was loading up to make the drive back to my hometown of Tallahassee, where I would begin local church pastoral ministry. My most vivid experience of this insecurity came while moving out of my seminary apartment. It’s that feeling you had in college when your friends spent spring break serving in a Haitian orphanage while you drove to the beach. If there is such a thing as missional insecurity, I have felt it. People who claim Christianity but lack gospel awareness present a unique evangelistic challenge. To Reach Unsaved Christians, First Help Them Get Lost by DEAN INSERRA for Christianity Today
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