Hello, friend. When you zoom out and look at the global church, it’s impossible not to be amazed. In places you may never visit, God is building his church through ordinary believers. Their faith, courage, and obedience are all part of a story far bigger than themselves.

And somehow—by his grace—we get to be part of that story too.

This week we share stories from Indonesia to Myanmar that remind us how the gospel is moving in places—and ways—we’d never expect. Let it encourage you that the same God at work there is at work in your life today.

In today’s edition:

• Training and gospel hope among Muslim communities in Indonesia

• How a single gospel conversation in Myanmar bore fruit decades later

• A new weekly podcast about following Jesus radically in your everyday life

🇮🇩 Spreading Hope Through Training

As a majority Muslim country, with a population of over 272 million, Indonesia has great spiritual and physical needs.

Radical partners with a project that addresses some of these needs by training Indonesian community members in new agricultural and home industry technologies. But they aren’t only sharing useful skills with the community. 

This project is among a Muslim population. By partnering with local churches, they are sharing the good news of Christ and seeking to plant churches among this community. 

How to Pray: Pray for the Lord to provide opportunities for gospel conversations, as community members are being trained in these new agricultural and home industry technologies. With many religions in Indonesia claiming to be the way to God, pray that Indonesians may know the good news of Jesus as the true Savior.

💬 How One Conversation Can Change it All

I have a story I recently came across that I hope will encourage you personally and practically today. It’s from a biography of Adoniram Judson entitled, “Bless God and Take Courage,” that I was reading recently. 

If you’ve never read “To the Golden Shore” about this man and his family and how they spread the gospel as the first modern missionaries to Myanmar, I cannot recommend it highly enough. But this was another biography, and it contained a story I had never heard.

Ann Judson, Adoniram’s first wife, was doing everything she could to support her husband when he had been thrown into a deadly prison. Ann met a kind Burmese woman who would bring rice and eggs to her, and Ann shared the gospel with her during one of their interactions. But then this woman and her husband had to flee that region suddenly, and she never saw her again. Eventually Adoniram was released from prison, and Ann died.

Decades later, another missionary named Murilla Ingalls had been inspired by the Judsons to move to Myanmar and was sharing the gospel in a Burmese village. As Murilla was sharing, a Burmese man approached her and asked if she would come to his village to share about Jesus there. Murilla agreed to do so, and one day she traveled with this man to his village. 

A crowd gathered around to listen to her, and as she shared the gospel, she heard the voice of an elderly woman in the back of the crowd cry out, “That’s the rest of it! That’s the rest of it!”

Murilla stopped speaking and asked the woman, “What do you mean?” 

The older woman came walking up to the front and explained with excitement, “Long, long ago, when I was young, I was living in a place where I met a woman who was caring for her husband in prison. One day she talked to me about her God and how He had provided a way of salvation from our sins. But soon thereafter, we had to move, and I could not remember exactly how we can be saved from our sins. And now you are here sharing that part of the story!”

This elderly woman said, “I want to trust in Jesus.” Moreover, the man who had invited Murilla to come to his village just so happened to be this elderly woman’s son. He also trusted in Jesus that day. And now a church began in the village of a woman whom Ann Judson had shared the gospel with for the first time decades before.

I share this story as an encouragement to you. Don’t ever underestimate what God will do when you share the gospel with someone else. You may see the fruit of that conversation in that moment or in the days ahead, which would be awesome. But even if you don’t ever see the fruit of that conversation in this world, trust that God is still writing awesome stories that you might not be able to celebrate until eternity.

In light of this, simply put, let’s share the gospel with someone today. And let’s trust that God will work in ways far beyond what we may ever see in this world.

—David Platt

🎙️ Introducing: Everyday Radical

Your life as a Christian doesn’t just revolve around Sunday—at least, it shouldn’t. 

In Luke 9:23, Jesus invited his disciples to take up their cross daily and follow him. Now I could be wrong, but the use of “daily” here doesn’t really sound accidental. 

So, what does it actually look like to take up our cross and follow Jesus every single day? 

That is exactly what we aim to explore in our brand new podcast: Everyday Radical. Once a week, we sit down to unpack what happens when ordinary people embrace an extraordinary calling to make Jesus known everywhere. Each episode features David Platt and believers from around the world—some leading massive ministries, others quietly following Jesus in their neighborhoods—having honest conversations about what it looks like to live faithfully for Christ every single day.

We tackle the questions that many of us wrestle with: How do I share the gospel without feeling afraid? How do I trust God when life feels messy or overwhelming? Why should I focus on unreached people when there’s so much need right around me?

What I love about Everyday Radical is that it doesn’t stay abstract. It’s not about particular personalities or impossible standards—it’s about the everyday realities of following Jesus with courage and compassion, wherever he leads.

My hope is that this podcast encourages you the way it’s already encouraged me: to see your neighborhood, your workplace, and even the hard parts of your life as places God wants to use for his glory. 

I’m thrilled for you to hear it. It launches on Tuesday, September 16th! Go subscribe to be the first to listen—and once you do, be sure to leave a review so more people can discover this podcast. 

Let’s stop coasting and start living radically for Jesus—right where we are, every single day.

—Austin Huang

📍 Attention Worthy

• The worldwide body of Christ needs more than American worship songs. Biblically-informed worship songs from across the world can benefit believers in every part of the world.

• Rather than pursuing personal greatness, we should have one goal—the glory of Christ. Adoniram Judson shares about ambition for the Great Commission as a missionary.

• A helpful overview of what church planting is, and what it has to do with the task of mission.

THIS WEEK’S CONTRIBUTORS:

David Burnette, Austin Huang, Selah Lipsey, Steven Morales, David Platt, Camille Suazo

MAKE JESUS KNOWN EVERYWHERE!