Many church leaders feel a quiet, nagging tension that rarely gets named out loud. We want to obey the Great Commission. We want to reach the lost. And yet, most weeks are consumed by people already inside the church—members in crisis, believers who are drifting, wounded, or stuck. The result is an underlying sense of failure. Pastors don’t usually lack motivation; they lack a paradigm that makes sense of their actual work.
But what if the problem isn’t our obedience? What if the problem lies in how we define the mission field?
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