I love Taco Bell’s slogan: “Think outside the bun!” Why? Because Taco Bell challenges the status quo that everything good has been done before.

Megachurch pastor Andy Stanley said, “To accept status quo is the equivalent of accepting the death sentence.” So when it comes to reaching the nations, how can we think outside our “bun”? Let’s not simply accept the status quo of how we’ve sent workers in the past.

Here are some small, smart choices that can move us away from status quo and produce a radical difference in the mobilization of the body of Christ to the 2.9 billion unreached peoples, if we practice them consistently over time. Will you help be a part of this revolution?

Part 3: Choose to Develop Your Heart for All Nations

While we would all agree that every disciple of Christ should have a heart for the nations, it is very easy to have tunnel vision and lose sight of the end goal (Revelation 7:9). When I served in the Philippines and then as a pastor in Florida, I remember that my whole world began to center around my ministry. My passion and heart for the nations got lost in the pressing needs around me.

Here are a few practical ways to continually develop your heart for the world.

• Pray through Operation World by yourself, with your family or with your church. Who knows? God might just draw your heart to a specific country.
• Become known as an advocate in your neck of the woods.
  • Point people toward globally focused books like Let the Nations Be Glad by John Piper.
  • Share a short video clip, like those found here from Crossworld.
  • Invite someone to go on a short-term trip with you.
• Host a home group with an international focus.
  • Pray for countries.
  • Eat international foods (works every time!).
  • Reach out to internationals in your community.

Let us no longer accept the status quo!

Part 1 – Choose to Pray … Daily!
Part 2 — Choose to Embrace Your Potential to Impact
Part 4 — Follow-up Questions

Mark Silvers served with Crossworld in the Philippines for 10 years and joined the home office staff as Director of Mobilization in 2009. Mark’s driving passion is the goal of reaching the the 2.9 billion people in the world today with no access to the gospel. Reply to Mark.