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the people who need this gospel most.
The gospel can’t be softened.
Three billion people are counting on it.
E.D. Burns spent this book arguing that the gospel cannot be adjusted, softened, or made more palatable — not in the American church, and not on the mission field. That conviction didn’t start in a seminary classroom. It started in villages, among people who had never once heard the name of Jesus.
Those people still exist. Billions of them. And a compromised gospel will never reach them. A diluted message has no power to cross cultures, survive persecution, or take root in soil where it has never been planted.
no church, no Bible, no missionary within reach.
That number isn’t abstract. It’s the reason ABWE exists. It’s the reason E.D. Burns lives in a mountain village in Southeast Asia instead of a faculty office. And it’s the reason we’re asking you to consider what comes next after reading.
Real people.
Real places. Still waiting.
These aren’t statistics. They’re people groups — communities with languages, histories, and deep spiritual hunger — where the uncompromised gospel has not yet arrived.
Across Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos, ABWE workers are planting churches among communities where Buddhism and folk animism have shaped every aspect of life for generations.
ABWE missionaries serve across the Arab world, building relationships and sharing the gospel among peoples where conversion carries significant personal and social cost.
Across South Asia, hundreds of millions of people practice Hinduism with little exposure to the gospel. ABWE missionaries are working to establish lasting gospel witness in these communities.
ABWE workers are planting churches and training leaders across sub-Saharan Africa, reaching communities where the gospel has yet to take root.
From remote indigenous communities in Latin America to urban populations across the region, ABWE missionaries are establishing gospel-preaching churches where none exist.
Across Europe and into Eurasia, ABWE workers are reaching both post-Christian communities and growing Muslim populations who have never heard the gospel clearly proclaimed.
“How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?”
Romans 10:14This is how the uncompromised gospel gets there.
The Global Gospel Fund is ABWE’s primary giving vehicle for getting missionaries trained, sent, and sustained among the world’s unreached peoples. Every dollar goes directly toward the work of mobilizing workers for the harvest — gospel servants like E.D. Burns, doing the kind of ministry this book describes.
Covers the cost of getting trained missionaries into the field — including to places that are difficult, dangerous, and expensive to reach.
Funds the ongoing presence of missionaries who stay — building churches, training leaders, and translating the Word into heart languages.
Resources like the one you just received exist because of this fund — training missionaries and equipping the church to hold the line.
The gospel is true for every person,
in every culture.
Help send it — uncompromised — to the people who haven’t heard it yet.