The "Heathen"

I learnt an interesting thing this morning. The heathen aren't really the unsaved; they are, but it's more interesting than that. The actual heathen are not the people who reject Christ in Canada, or America etc, they are ones whom their fathers have (from God) wandered away, and now they don't have a choice about being saved or not cause there is no one to preach the gospel to them. That sucks!! People are going to hell with their sins already forgiven, because they just haven't been told. They haven't had the opportunity to hear about, and recieve Jesus, and what He did for them. The heathen are actually people born into places that don't hear the gospel. Places like India, China, the Middle East, Africa, etc etc etc. The people we associate ourselves with, that don't believe in Jesus, are simply "unbelievers". They've had ample opportunity to believe, yet they have chosen not to. The heathen haven't had a chance to accept, or reject Christ, cause there is no witness. What a sad state that is. I bless the foreign missionaries. The ones who are being mocked, spit upon, beaten, tortured, and killed to bring about choice to these people whom they labour so furiously for.

That brings another thought to my mind. How long shall we put off going to the heathen while we stay here and try to reach the ones who have rejected Christ for the past couple hundred years? I don't recall Jesus spending too much time giving people chances, over and over again, before moving on to ones who had not yet heard the Good News. I'm all for reaching Canada, but I'm more for going to the unreached. Maybe when all the heathen have had the opportunity to respond to the Gospel, I will stress the importance of reaching Canada and of focusing our attention on the unbelievers. Maybe not though. Time shall tell............................