Fantastic sermon by Al Jackson at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Chapel this morning: here is the link.
On a similar note:
No, it isn’t for lack of money that there are 1,568 peoples with no missionaries. It’s because we have so much. The comforts of the West have made us soft and cautious and fearful and indulgent and self-protecting, instead of tough and risk-taking and bold and self-controlled and self-sacrificing. When prosperity preachers fly their personal jets to the Two-thirds World and promise the poor that if they believe in Jesus, they will get rich, they are not doing Christian missions. They are destroying its foundations. That is not the gospel that saves and produces sacrifice.
John Piper, Proclaiming the Excellencies of Christ, Not Prosperity, Among the Nations
