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  (SERMON CLIP) THE DISFIGURED BRIDE AND UNREACHED PEOPLE GROUPS
  by Dick Brogden
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of apostleship and
partnership in reaching unreached peoples around the world, highlighting
the need to go into the shadowlands like Libya, Iraq, Syria, and Somalia
to witness, suffer, live, and die together. It stresses that the church
is incomplete until all nations have heard the Gospel, using the analogy
of a bride missing essential features until unreached people groups are
reached.

Topics: "Apostleship", "Global Mission"
Scripture References: Matthew 28:19, Romans 10:14, Revelation 7:9, Psalm 96:3, Isaiah 6:8

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of apostleship and partnership in
reaching unreached peoples around the world, highlighting the need to go
into the shadowlands like Libya, Iraq, Syria, and Somalia to witness,
suffer, live, and die together. It stresses that the church is
incomplete until all nations have heard the Gospel, using the analogy of
a bride missing essential features until unreached people groups are
reached.

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Apostleship is not to be rendered in the shadow of a thousand steeples.
Our partnership must take us arm-in-arm, bend-in-knee-to-bend-in-knee
into the shadowlands, to the Libya's, into the Iraq's, into the Syria's
and the Somalia's of the world. And we must witness and suffer and live
and die in the most unstable of locations together.

Our centennial celebration must be laced with mourning. As Lauren
Triplett rightly said, we must measure ourselves by what is left undone.
Jesus is coming for a beautiful bride, and yet as long as there are
unreached peoples, the bride is still defigured.

The Rashida are unreached, and the bride has no eye. The Pashtun are
unreached, and the bride has no teeth. The Somali are unreached, and the
bride has no hair.

1.6 billion Muslims are unreached, and the bride has no ear. Hundreds of
peoples across central Eurasia are unreached, and the bride has no nose.
This is a vital aspect of mission so little understood.

Not only do absent peoples mar the church, absent peoples mar the image
of Jesus, for the church doesn't have the fullness of Jesus until the
fullness of the nations have Him. And look at this image of a marred,
incomplete bride. And yet, every time an unreached people group joins
the fold, a new perspective of God is released into Christian corpus.

Think of it. Turkmen of Central Asia are saved. We get our nose back.

Muslims redeemed, and we gain an ear. God is glorified by the Somali,
and our head is adorned with hair. The gospel progresses across the
Pashtun, and we get our teeth.

The Rashida respond to the glory of God, and we gain an eye. The church
is beautified by the spread of the gospel.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/zxEpcnioNF8.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/dick-brogden/sermon-clip-the-disfigured-bride-and-unreached-people-groups/
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