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With over 2 billion people worldwide lacking access to a Bible, an evangelical church, and even just a Christian person, there is a serious need for the missional work of global evangelism, disciple-making, and church planting. That\u2019s why I believe biblical counseling is a tremendous tool for a church plant or an already established church to use to reach hurting and lost persons, especially those enslaved to addictions of all types. Addicts are everywhere, even overseas. When we refer addicts out of the church for help, we are losing opportunities to preach the Gospel and failing to address the heart issues driving addicted, idolatrous behavior. It is a problem that trained biblical counselors can address for the purpose of disciple-making within the local church and evangelism in our communities and the world.<\/p>\n

WHO ARE THE UNREACHED?<\/b><\/p>\n

I deeply appreciate Dr. David Platt\u2019s work to mobilize the body of Christ to be mission-minded because reaching the lost is a daunting task for an often apathetic church. Missional work is a primary work of the body of Christ. While I know some of my more literal friends may get angry with my broad use of the description \u201cunreached people group\u201d when describing persons in the struggle with all types of addictions, I truly believe the label applies to addicts in several ways and I will explain why.<\/p>\n

In a Radical Together<\/i> blog post entitled \u201cWho Are the Unreached?\u201d on January 6, 2015, Dr. Platt answers this question in the following way:<\/p>\n

The unreached are\u00a0people groups among whom there is no indigenous community of believing Christians able to engage the people group with church planting<\/b>. Now you\u2019ll notice in that definition the term \u201cpeople group.\u201d And just to remind you what that means . . .<\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0When Jesus commanded the church to make disciples of all the nations, the word He used for nations there is \u201cethn\u0113,\u201d from which we get words like \u201cethnic groups.\u201d And this is important, because when Jesus was talking about nations there in\u00a0Matthew 28:19, he wasn\u2019t referring to nations like we think of nations today \u2013 200 or so geopolitical nations in the world that, quite frankly, didn\u2019t exist 2000 years ago, when Jesus said this, in the way they do now. No, Jesus is specifically talking about ethnic groups:\u00a0groups of people that share common cultural and language characteristics<\/b>. And among 200 nations today, there are a plethora of people groupings. <\/i><\/p>\n

And not just among nations, but in cities\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n

So think about 200 nations filled with a diverse array of peoples. Most anthropologists and missiological scholars say there are over 11,000 different people groups. So unreached peoples, then, are people groups who don\u2019t have \u201can indigenous community of believing Christians\u201d \u2013 and what that means is that there is not a church made up of men and women from that people that is sufficient to engage that people with the gospel . . . that has enough presence to make the gospel known among that people.<\/i><\/p>\n

Technically speaking, when we say \u201cunreached,\u201d we\u2019re saying that the percentage of evangelical Christians in this people group is less than 2%<\/i><\/b>. And why that\u2019s important is because what that means is that if there\u2019s not a substantial church presence among a people, then not only do over 98% of the people not believe the gospel, but because there\u2019s no church around them, and no Christians among them, then most of them have never even met a Christian (i.e., a person who would share the gospel with them). They are \u201cunreached.\u201d Most (if not almost all) of the people in that people group have not been reached by a Christian\u00a0. . .\u00a0and Christ has not been named\/preached among them.[1]<\/b><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

HOPE FOR ALL PEOPLE<\/b><\/p>\n

How can we read this quote and not have broken hearts for those without access to the Gospel? As believers prospering by God\u2019s generosity to us in America, we have been entrusted not only with great monetary riches but with the greatest of all riches: the Gospel. Yet the call to make disciples of all nations starts in our own backyards. To paraphrase a former pastor of mine: \u201cIf you are not already doing the work of ministry and evangelism here in the United States, then you certainly won\u2019t do it if we send you out on the mission field.\u201d In like manner, local churches must stop automatically referring addicts of all types out to secular entities for so-called help. If local churches refuse to serve the spiritually lost people of their own country who are struggling with heart issues leading to addictive behaviors, how effective will they be in serving those overseas?<\/p>\n

The Bible clearly addresses alcohol, drug, and other addictive problems as moral choices rather than some medical disease since the problem is within one\u2019s own heart. For example, Proverbs 23:35b ends an unusual portion of Scripture with a statement of the heart: \u201cWhen shall I awake? I will seek another drink<\/b>.\u201d Clearly, it is a desire of the heart and an act of the will to leave one drunken stupor in search of the next drunken stupor. Addiction problems are sin and often likened to idolatry. Passages such as Matthew 24:49; Luke 7:34; I Cor. 5:11 & 6:10; Eph. 5:18-21; and I John 5:21 are just a few Scriptures that address drunkenness and warn against idolatry.<\/p>\n

REACHING THE UNREACHED<\/b><\/p>\n

The call is for Christians to reach out to help the enslaved idolater in the community who is crying out for help. Most people turn to the church last, not first, for help with addictions. \u201cI\u2019ve tried everything else so now I will try God,\u201d is often the thought that brings an addict to his knees, and yet what the addict finds in a secular, self-help meeting is an introduction to a Higher Power of one\u2019s own choosing. Let me remind you that if I can choose my Higher Power, then I am really the highest power in that I am crafting this god into my own liking and my own understanding \u2013 which is the definition of idolatry (Isa. 44:9-20). The secular world is offering \u201cgod\u201d to the addict while the church is offering a referral to an outside agency for so-called \u201creal help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is what I have observed with the unreached people group of idolaters\/addicts who are lost and need Christ:<\/p>\n

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  1. They do not have access to\u00a0the Gospel if they go to the vast majority of the treatment and rehabilitation\u00a0programs available today. If there are believers in those programs, then\u00a0they are bound by the policies not to initiate faith discussions. Dr. Platt wrote, \u201cThe unreached are\u00a0people\u00a0groups among whom there is no indigenous community of believing Christians\u00a0able to engage the people group with church planting<\/b>.\u201d[2]<\/a>\u00a0Church attendance in lieu of attendance at 12 step meetings is very often\u00a0discouraged among most programs because, as it is commonly said, church is\u00a0for \u201creligious people\u201d while self-help groups are for \u201cspiritual people.\u201d Some\u00a0have even said, \u201cChurch will just confuse you.\u201d (In many churches in\u00a0America, this may be an indictment of a culture that needs to be taken\u00a0into consideration and changed.) My point is, however, that addicts will\u00a0not be pointed to the evangelical church or the Bible for help at the\u00a0majority of addiction programs.<\/li>\n
  2. There are not many addiction\u00a0resources to make Christ known since it is discouraged in treatment and\u00a0rehab programs that teach a different message that any higher power will\u00a0do. A common phrase among self-help meetings is that, \u201cAny God will do as\u00a0long as he\u2019s higher than you!\u201d Well, any god won\u2019t do and only the One\u00a0True God will do. You won\u2019t hear that message at the majority of addiction\u00a0programs.<\/li>\n
  3. Addicts share a common culture and language, not only in their underground drug-seeking world,\u00a0but also, as I\u2019ve already alluded to in the points above, in their\u00a0treatment and rehab circles. The drug culture is its own widespread\u00a0community. It is hard to break into that sense of belonging and community when you are a biblical counselor working in a residential program that is\u00a0disconnected<\/i> from the local\u00a0church. Many well-meaning programs are 501c-3 non-profit programs that are NOT under the direct authority of the local church; therefore, they help temporarily in the short-term but cannot offer the lifelong community that a local church can offer. For this reason, we see many substitute churches<\/i> that have risen\u00a0in the form of self-help groups<\/i>\u00a0all over the world.<\/li>\n
  4. Finally, the remedy taught by most programs is based upon the assumption that addiction is a disease\u00a0not a sin nature problem from the heart (Mark 7:20-21). As I\u2019ve said in my\u00a0many publications on this topic, we acknowledge the physical ramifications of putting poisons into your body and take measures to have that addressed by medical professionals where needed, yet the message of most addiction\u00a0programs is one that does violence<\/i> to the Gospel and makes addicts hopeless victims of a so-called medical problem when the problem is one of sinful desires and idolatry (Prov.\u00a023:35). Why would a local church send a lost soul to a secular entity\u00a0where they will not hear the Gospel; not going to be held responsible for\u00a0their choices in terms of their relationship to God;[3]<\/a>\u00a0and not be encouraged to read and study the Bible? Should we reconsider\u00a0how often churches refer lost souls out to wolves in sheep\u2019s clothing for\u00a0soul care? Are we in sin when we send hurting people like this away, without any real hope?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    CONCLUSION<\/b><\/p>\n

    While I know I am broadly using the description \u201cunreached people group\u201d for addicts, my reason is to make one simple point: The local church is the answer for connecting the hope of the Gospel with the heart of addiction. Churches failing to offer hope and help to those struggling with addictions are missing opportunities to proclaim the excellencies of Christ (Col. 1:28).<\/p>\n

    If you are looking for a helpful way to start an addiction outreach in your local church, The Heart of Addiction<\/i> and its companion Workbook<\/i> are written directly to the struggling addict. These practical tools I\u2019ve written can help you come alongside someone struggling, so you can start by working through the text together. For group leaders, my precious wife and I co-authored a Leader\u2019s Guide for The Heart of Addiction<\/i> to be used in an intensive small group study. The message of these resources matches the message of the Bible \u2013 a fact that is not true of all self-help, recovery materials. When starting a group, start as small as possible and make quality disciples, maybe even challenge them to become disciple-makers one day!<\/p>\n

    Admittedly, my desire is to see more and more churches reaching out to lost and dying souls right here on American soil, particularly addicts of all kinds. I believe that there are more souls willing to seek God\u2019s answers for help with an addiction than you may realize. The harvest is plenty but the workers few (Luke 10:2). Is your local church ready and willing to labor in this field while continuing to try and reach the billions of those in urgent physical and spiritual need around the globe as well?<\/p>\n

    When we say unreached, we\u2019re not just talking about lostness, we\u2019re talking about access. Unreached means that they don\u2019t even have access to hear the gospel. There\u2019s no church, no Christian, no Bible available \u2026 God has not just commanded us to make the gospel known among as many people as possible. He has commanded us to make the gospel known among all the peoples.<\/i>[4]<\/i><\/b><\/a> – Dr. David Platt<\/i><\/p>\n

    \u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s only one thing worse than being lost. That\u2019s being lost and having no one try to find you.\u201d \u2013 Dr. David Platt[5]<\/b><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

    FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION<\/b><\/p>\n

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    1. How are you strategically reaching out to connect the hope of the gospel to those struggling with addiction?<\/li>\n
    2. How can your local church begin praying about starting a non-residential, biblical, and Christ-centered disciple-making program for the addicts in your area?<\/li>\n
    3. How can your local church begin to reach the more than two billion lost people around the world?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      [1]<\/a> Platt, David. \u201cWho Are the Unreached?\u201d Radical.<\/span> January 6, 2015. Radical: Devoted to Christ, Serving the Church, Reaching the Nations. March 5, 2015. <http:\/\/www.radical.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/who-are-the-unreached\/<\/a>><\/p>\n

      [2]<\/a> Ibid.<\/p>\n

      [3]<\/a> Most programs will hold them somewhat responsible for their choices that hurt society, their families, etc.<\/p>\n

      [4]<\/a> \u201cMissions Focus: Unreached.\u201d East West Missionaries International<\/span>. Nov. 26, 2013. East West Missionaries International. March 5, 2015. <http:\/\/www.eastwest.org\/blog\/missions-focus-unreached\/<\/a>><\/p>\n

      [5]<\/a> Platt, David. \u201cOur Obligation to the Unreached- Part 1, Romans 1-3\u201d Radical<\/span>. August 17, 2014. Radical: Devoted to Christ, Serving the Church, Reaching the Nations. March 5, 2015. <http:\/\/www.radical.net\/media\/series\/view\/2441\/our-obligation-to-the-unreached-part-1?filter=series><\/a><\/p>\n

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