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The Great Omission: A Biblical Basis for World Evangelism

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Dr. McQuilkin make a strong case for American Christians to get beyond selfishness and on to obedience of Christ's marching orders for His Church. Christ gave us the Great Commission five times after His resurrection. What was His priority for us before He returned to heaven? He told us five time in different words. We should understand by this that we are to "Go and Tell." But where should the church be going? We must go where the light is absent and where the area is darkest. When 90% of the workers focus on 5% of the people on the earth, it seems we are missing the mark of "every ethnic group" (ethnos) of the Great Commission in Mat. 28. We are not obeying Jesus. This book will help bring the priority of Missions into a clear perspective. Read this book and consider the Scriptures that it explains. The truth here will change your life.

The Great Omission was reminder of how important it is to remember the command of Christ to disciple all the nations of the world. It challenged me to remember how important it is to deny ourselves and serve the LORD sacrificially as we carry our own crosses. There were two things that particularily struck me about this book. The first thing was the danger of emphasizing the tent-maker as the means of reaching the world. Although the tent-maker is needed and may be the only access into the closed countries of the world we still need many who like Apostle Paul will still be willing to go out and be a full time evangelist and church planter. Secondly, we must guard our minds and hearts against incorrect theology such as universalism. The necessity of sharing the gospel must never be put on the back shelf. We must obey the call. Finally, I really liked the appendix in the back of the book. He answers some basic objections that many people have today concerning missions that are just as true today.

Dr. McQuilkin make a strong case for American Christians to get beyond selfishness and on to obedience of Christ's marching orders for His Church. Christ gave us the Great Comsiion five times after His resurrection. We must go where the light is the darkest. When 90% of the workers focus on 5% of the people on the earth, it seems we are missing the mark of "every ethnic group" (ethnos) of the great comsiion in Mat. 28. We are not obeying Jesus.

This book is a must read for every believer! It is NOT out of print but is available through OM Literature, PO Box 1047, Waynesboro, GA 30830.

This book was an awesome presentation of our responibility in Advancing God's kingdom. McQuilken is great at choosing his words carefully for impact. It is a great book for anyone intersted in developing ministry leaders, especially for communicating God's heart for worldwide mission. Don't let the small size of the book minimize its impact-potential in your ministry.

It's a real shame this is out of print. This is a must read for anyone interested or involved in missions. It is extremely well written and based on sound biblical principals and data. McQuilkin is a gifted communicator who really will challenge the reader. It is a short book, filled with great information.

The author has an intense passion for directing people to God's call to missions, especially missions among those who have not heard the Gospel of Christ before. In the limited space in which he talks about this, I think he makes a good case. As someone who is involved in overseas missions myself, I affirm this passion.

However, the author spends much time indirectly attacking those who don't follow his focus on one aspect of bringing the Kingdom of Heaven to Earth. He sees getting people to heaven when they die as being the purpose of Christianity, and preaching about Jesus to those who haven't heard yet as the only responsible way to get more people there. When he talks about why people aren't fulfilling the Great Commission in the manner that he would prefer, he speculates that they might be lazy, or perhaps self-centered. The book in general implies that perhaps they don't know the Bible and God's intentions for us well enough.

But what if following Christ is more than just having the right information and enough motivation? What if Christ's call to us is about living full and eternal life within the Kingdom of God right here, not just when we die? Perhaps the issue isn't that people don't have the right information. Perhaps the issue is that they haven't seen enough Christians living out Christian life to the fullest. There is a lot more to following Christ than knowing and affirming the basic facts about who Jesus is, and we need more people who are following Christ to the fullest in every part of the world, not just the "unreached" areas. If people were giving over their whole lives to Christ in the places where Christians already are, there wouldn't be nearly as much difficulty getting more workers to give up their lives to go where Christians currently aren't.

If I hadn't been convinced already, the book would have convinced me that there is something missing in the Church's ability to fulfill this aspect of Christ's call. But the point the book seems to miss is that the Church is has a long ways to go in fulfilling Christ's full call to us in all places of the world, not just the unreached ones. Far more people should be willing to give up their lives and follow Christ with all they have. But that won't necessarily lead them to unreached people groups. True disciples of Christ are needed everywhere.