The mission of 2 Pillars Church is to reach the unreached for Christ and transform the city of Lincoln by loving God and loving people. This is the second of a five-post series aimed at unpacking this mission.

Today’s focus: who are the unreached?

The unreached abound.  They’re everywhere.  They’re in our families, on our streets, in our circles of friends, at the homeless shelters, in our dorms, in our neighbor’s house, in our hospitals and nursing homes, in our workplaces, in our play places, the stores we visit – they’re everywhere.  The goal is not for each of us to reach everyone, but for everyone to reach someone.  You don’t have to be Billy Graham and save thousands of people.  Andrew started with his brother who happened to be Peter.

The first place to start is within our sphere of influence: people we already know.  Think of the ripple effect that happens when you throw a rock into a lake.  You impact your friends and family, they impact theirs, they theirs, and on and on.

At the same time, the unreached is not restricted to our sphere of influence.  Jesus calls us not just to those that we already know and are in some ways like us, but also to people who we don’t know in places we’re not familiar with.  Extending even further, he calls us to the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind as well as sinners and tax collectors and the sick and the oppressed.  To honor Jesus’ call, we have to get involved in these people’s lives and enter into relationships with them.  Jesus’ mission is a messy mission; it takes us out of our comfort zone and puts us on the front lines with sinners in a sin-saturated culture.