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Eshleman’s bold projection: By the end of 2017 no more 'unengaged' people groups (Please use this version)
By Mark Ellis, Special to ASSIST News Service
LA MIRADA, California (ANS -- March 28, 2015)
-- Paul Eshleman, the founder of the JESUS Film Project and its director
for 25 years, has more recently turned his prodigious leadership gifts
to finishing the Great Commission. As such, he tours the country with a
list of 485 groups that have no known Christian workers in them. But he
anticipates they will be engaged with new missionaries by the end of
2017.
“I think we are on the verge of seeing the fulfillment of Matthew
24:14 and Habbakuk 1:5,” says Eshleman, currently director of the
“Finishing the Task” Movement, which seeks to enlist individuals,
churches and mission organizations to send full-time workers to any
remaining groups that have not yet been engaged with the gospel.
He spoke to a meeting of the Evangelical Missiological Society held at Biola University March 13th.
Even as world conditions deteriorate, Eshleman maintains a healthy
optimism that “the hearts of men and women are going to continue to
open.”
He recently returned from India where he participated in a baptism
for 92 people from 15 people groups that had no church in them a year
ago. “Now a year later there are 92 people calling Jesus Lord!” he
exclaims.
“There is a movement growing that will not ever be stopped until the Lord comes again.”
Eshleman has attracted some controversy over the last few years with
his list of ethnolinguistic unengaged, unreached people groups.
At the Third Congress on World Evangelization held in Cape Town,
South Africa, in 2010 a participant approached him after his
presentation and said, “I think that’s the worst talk we’ve had so far.”
“People shook my list (of groups) at me and said, “What do you mean?
This is trash.” One participant was incensed because his organization
had “people working night and day to reach” a certain group.
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