Many of us, (myself included) were raised to think that in order to fulfill the Great Commission, we had to send missionaries to foreign lands to learn new languages, proclaim the gospel and plant churches. And that’s what we did. Decades later, the evidence is in. Thousands of churches have been started. In many of these far-flung fields the percentage of Christians now exceed the percentage of Christians in our own country. And the degree of commitment that believers exhibit in many of these same countries would put us to shame. The point of this article is to alert us to the fact (if you haven’t already discerned this for yourself) that while the light of the gospel is ever shining brighter in many parts of the world, it seems to be losing its radiance here at home.