Resources
Looking For Ways to Share?
Looking for ways to share The Great Disconnect with your church? You’re in the right place.
The Videos
Check out a breakdown of each chapter of the report to get a quick glimpse of the key aspects!
Chapter 1
Whether they know it or not, pastors are often disconnected from churchgoers when it comes to their perspectives on missions.
Chapter 2
If our goal is to help people grasp and fulfill the meaning of the Great Commission, we must first answer the question, “why?
Chapter 3
What’s the “right” way to do missions? Is the Church being smart and effective? Pastors and U.S. Christians have differing views.
Chapter 4
Finances can be a touchy subject—but if our treasure is where our heart is, we need a pulse check when it comes to our giving priorities.
Resources
3 Steps to a Better Mission Strategy
Together with Barna Group, our heart is to provide your church with the tools you need to evaluate your missions strategy and ensure it matches your vision. These tools break into three simple steps.
Church Toolkit
Use the church toolkit to engage your church’s small groups, leadership, and Sunday school classes in meaningful conversations around missions. As pastors and churchgoers unpack their own “why” around Great Commission motivations, it will help you re-focus the attention of your church!
Let’s Chat
Interested in a personal conversation around your church’s missions strategies and next steps? We’d love to set up a one-on-one conversation with you! Please don’t hesitate to reach out, and a member of the Mission India team will be in touch.
What’s The Great Commission
In 2017, a survey conducted by Barna Group showed that only 37% of Christians could accurately identify the Great Commission. If Christians are unfamiliar with the Great Commission, it’s tough to pursue this final command from Jesus together. Where do we go from here?
Reclaim Your Church’s Heart for Missions
Over the past few years, we’ve been hit hard by the statistic that only 37% of U.S. Christians can accurately identify the Great Commission. It’s a tragedy to think that Jesus’ final command in Matthew 28:19—to “go and make disciples of all nations”—is being missed.
Do Christians Misunderstand Missions?
Only 42% of practicing Christians believe missions is a mandate for all Christians. On top of that, an additional 6% of practicing Christians believe missions is neither a calling nor a mandate.
What Missions Work is Most Important?
Is it possible that believers are getting so caught up in addressing certain issues that they forget to proclaim the Gospel along the way?
What’s the Right Way to Do Missions?
How do we know if the method our church has selected is successful? To dig even deeper, does our church value measuring the effectiveness of its missions impact at all?
What’s the Best Way to Fund Missions?
If our treasure and our heart are connected, what does our missions giving say about our Great Commission priorities? And based on what we believe to be important as Christians, where should we be giving?
Let’s Meet!
Gather with us in person at an upcoming event near you! In community with fellow church leaders, you’ll learn how to take findings from The Great Disconnect and take action in your own church. This is also a chance to ask questions and gain further insight into the current state of global missions as perceived by the U.S. Church.