By: Pete Holzmann <Pete@xc.org>

I've recently had some significant mobilization success by taking a different tack. This has worked great with children, teens, and adults. Y'know where the Bible talks about how we must spread the Gospel to every people before Christ will return? Well, keep the meaning, but turn the sequence on its head a bit. I've been calling it THE SCUM OF THE EARTH And here's an outline of how the presentation goes. I can do it in a minute or less if necessary, one on one or with a large group. [NOTE: I tend to use the word "cultures" rather than "peoples" because most folks understand it more quickly.]

• Sometimes we treat brothers and sisters like scum. (Kids can really get into this). We don't want them around, we hate 'em, at best we try to ignore them...
• When we act that way, our parents don't like it; it makes them really sad...
• On a bigger scale, we do the same thing in schools / cities / towns around the world. "They're nerds" "Those folks are from the wrong side of the tracks," "they're trash," etc.
• Well, guess what. For over a thousand years, the entire Christian community has been acting that way towards hundreds of _entire cultures_. We even have a list now! We treat them like scum. At best, we ignore them. At worst, we hate their guts. We ignore them so much you've probably never even heard about this!
• As a matter of fact, God is SO upset that we're treating His children so badly, that He _refuses_ to let Jesus return until we change our attitude, and reach out to them as He has told us to.
• So... what are we going to do about it?

==>>At this point, I almost always get the same question. "Wait a minute. You mean to tell me there are whole cultures that we're ignoring? What about all the missionaries out there???" (What an opening!)

"Yup, these cultures really exist with tens of thousands, even millions of people in them. And few or no missionaries or organizations are involved in any of them!" "That's TERRIBLE!!!!" and suddenly I've got 300 teens, or 300 adults, ready to pray, give, learn, etc. It's been very encouraging!

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