Discovering God's Heart for the Nations | Fall 2025 | Lesson 1

What if your salvation was meant for more than just you? 

From the opening chapters of Genesis, God reveals a heart that beats for all nations. When He commands humanity to "be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth," He's establishing a vision of a world filled with people who love and worship Him. When sin shatters this vision, God doesn't abandon His plan—He refines it.

Enter Abraham, a nobody from nowhere, who receives an extraordinary promise: "I will bless you...and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." This covenant becomes the narrative backbone of Scripture, pointing toward the ultimate blessing: Jesus Christ. As the Apostle Paul explains, this promise wasn't just announcing a future Messiah; it was pre-announcing the Gospel itself. Even more revolutionary, Paul declares that every Christian is Abraham's spiritual descendant and heir to this world-changing promise.

This class unveils how God's global mission threads through Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. You'll discover why approximately 7,000 of the world's 17,000 distinct people groups remain unreached, and why natural church growth alone will never cross the cultural, linguistic, and geographic barriers that separate them from hearing about Jesus.

Throughout this journey, we confront a challenging truth: God blesses us not merely for our own benefit, but so we might be conduits of blessing to others. Whether through praying, giving, going, or advocating, every believer has a role in fulfilling God's ancient promise to gather worshippers from every tribe, tongue, and nation.

Join us in exploring how our personal stories of inadequacy—much like Abraham's—become platforms for God's global purposes when we surrender to His calling. In God's kingdom, there are no nobodys from nowhere when they're vessels of His blessing to the nations.