4.4 Billion People Don’t Know About Easter
April 8, 2009 – 9:43 am
This Easter Sunday most of us will attend a special service at our church. It’s the time to show off new Easter outfits, have Easter egg hunts and get together as families.
Churches will put on plays, skits, have special music or in other ways portray the resurrection of Jesus. Pastors will preach about how Jesus died for our sins, rose from the dead and lives in our hearts if we will invite Him in. It will be a glorious day for millions of Christians around the world.
Last Sunday at our church we had a missionary speaker who was going to a country in southern Asia. “Only one percent of the people in this nation have even heard the name ‘Jesus’,” the missionary told us. “The Assemblies of God has not been in this country for very long and there is much work to do.”
Jesus died for all. He is “not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).
Yet, as we mentioned in the last blog, of the nearly 7 billion people in the world, 4.4 billion still have not heard an adequate presentation of the gospel. They don’t know that Jesus died for their sins, rose from the dead, and is offering them salvation and eternal life.
This Easter Sunday, as we celebrate the greatest day in Christianity, let’s renew our commitment to pray, give, go — or do all three — so more of these 4.4 billion people will also have an opportunity to experience Jesus’ resurrection power in their lives.
Click here to read one of many stories about how people are coming to Christ.