In the gap: What it means to be a world Christian

by David Bryant

Book Overview

In the gap: What it means to be a world Christian This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830709525
• ISBN13: 9780830709526
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Regal Books
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.

Customer Reviews

"In The Gap"--A Guide To Develop a Heart for World Missions

David Bryant's expression, "standing in the gap," is a useful way to describe the mission to which all Christians are called. There is a chasm caused by sin and moral failure which separates each human being from God and His heaven. Only Christ has the power to bridge that gap, and he has called believers to serve with him in that gap between humanity and God. Bryant challenges every Christian to answer two questions: "Will I stand in the gap? and "In what part of the gap will I stand?" God's sovereignty ultimately determines how the answer to those two questions will be acted out in each believer's life.As Bryant states, "To stand in the Gap means to place no limits on how fully God may use you, or for whose sake."Bryant further points to the fact that Christians need a cause, the cause of world missions, to energize their spiritual lives. By the author's estimates, of the three billion non-Christians in the world, at least 2 1/2 billion are hidden people. By this, he means that they are part of a people group for which no missionaries or churches currently exist.To meet this need, Bryant calls for the reader to turn to prayer as the foundation of all outreach to the nations of the world.He states, "By prayer we establish a beachhead for the Kingdom among people where it has never been before. Prayer strikes the winning blow. All other missionary efforts simply gather up the fruits of our praying."Although Bryant's book is now out of print, it well worth searching out and buying a used copy in order to benefit from the way the book will motivate the believer to build his or her own vision for world missions.