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English Resource:  Book by John Piper

Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ

Goal: FUNDED - Thank you for your support.

100% Raised

Resource

Jesus' words in John 12 are sobering: unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it will bear little fruit. The history of Christianity's expansion proves that God's strategy for reaching unreached peoples with the gospel includes the sufferings of his frontline heralds-the missionaries who willingly die a thousand daily deaths to advance God's kingdom.

 

Pastor John Piper's latest addition to The Swans Are Not Silent series focuses on this flesh-and-blood reality in the lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton. The price they paid to translate the Word of God, to pave the way for missionary mobilization around the world, and to lead the hostile to Christ was great. Yet their stories show in triplicate how the gospel advances not only through the faithful proclamation of the truth but through representing the afflictions of Christ in our sufferings.

 

Language

While the majority of the world speaks and communicates in local languages, globalization has a created one major stream of communication—Global English. It is the official language of 53 nations (one-fourth of the world), and it is estimated that another billion people speak it as their second language. Nearly 1,742,600,000 are able to access, read, and comprehend resources in the English language. That’s more than 1 out of 5 people in the world!

 

While we continue to pursue translation into key languages, many times it is more cost effective to make English resources available to pastors, seminaries, and those who train church leaders. Global English is vital for equipping Christian leaders with selected biblical works. 

 

Nations using English as an official language.

 

Geography of the Language

Global—All Continents

 

Global English Demographics

  • 11% First Language English Speakers

  • 24% Comprehend, Read and have Access to English

  • 99% Literacy Rate

  • 6.89% English-Proficient Protestants

(Ethnologue, Joshua Project)

 

Partner

 

Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian ministry that exists to proclaim the gospel through publishing in order to, by God's grace:

 

  • Assist individual Christians and the church in growing in knowledge and understanding of the Christian life;

  • Bear witness to God's truth, beauty and holiness, and to the Lordship of Christ in every area of life;

  • Help bring men, women, and children to Christ as their Lord and Savior;

  • Glorify our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in every way.

 

Desiring God

This project is in cooperation with Desiring God, who has graciously donated a large quantity of this book to TGC and is partnering to deploy them through Packing Hope. Desiring God exists to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ. 

Project Details

Goal: Funding Completed

 

Title:  Filling Up the Afflictions of Christ

Author: John Piper
Format: Softcover Book
Language: English

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