What Does the Bible Say About Sharing the Good News of Jesus?
The Bible has a lot to say about sharing the Good News of Jesus. The Great Commission is repeated four times, and much of the history of the New Testament is about believers bringing the Good News with them as they spread out in “Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8, NKJV).
This Good News is a message of love and peace. Jesus said, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you” (John 20:21). Thus, believers today are sent to share God’s love and peace with those around us, just as Jesus was sent to us.
Jesus did not leave the work of sharing the Good News to chance. In Matthew 28:19 (NKJV), He gave His followers a clear command: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” This command has not expired. Every generation of believers carries it forward, from Jerusalem to the villages of Africa and Asia where millions still wait to hear the name of Jesus Christ.
This calling is not confined to pulpits or mission fields. Every believer has a role in bringing the Good News to those who have never heard it. Some go, some send, some pray, and some give — but all participate. As Jesus promised in Matthew 28:20 (NKJV), “I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
The apostle Peter captured the posture every believer should have. 1 Peter 3:15 (NKJV) instructs: “always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you.” Sharing our faith begins with a heart that is ready — ready to speak, ready to serve, and ready to live in such a way that people ask what makes us different. Crosswalk notes that the most powerful witness often comes through ordinary moments of kindness. [2]
The Holy Spirit is the one who makes sharing our faith effective. Jesus promised in John 16:8 (NKJV) that the Spirit would “convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.” We do not carry the weight of conversion on our own shoulders.
We open our mouths to speak, we serve with our hands in love, and the Spirit does what only the Spirit can do — He opens blind eyes and softens hard hearts — He changes hearts. That partnership removes the fear from sharing the Gospel and replaces it with the confidence that God is already at work long before we ever arrive.
Millions Still Waiting to Hear
One third of the world’s communities are still waiting to experience Christ’s love for the first time. Many of them live in Africa and Asia, where GFA World is working to show God’s love by meeting the physical needs of the people on those continents.
Through helping children, uplifting women, offering free medical care and providing clean water, our national missionaries show how deeply God loves and cares for people.
Today, approximately 3.4 billion people live in communities with little or no access to the Gospel. Joshua Project data shows that thousands of people groups remain unreached, concentrated across the 10/40 Window. [1]
This vast region stretches from West Africa to East Asia. In these places, the message of eternal life has never been spoken in a language the people understand.
The numbers are staggering, but behind every statistic is a real person — a mother wondering if hope exists, a father working to exhaustion for a family he cannot feed, a child who has never heard that they are known and loved by their Creator. Every digit in the 3.4 billion represents a face whose story matters to God. No chart can capture the weight of a mother’s sleepless nights or the ache of a father who cannot provide.
These are the people national missionaries walk alongside every day. They are neighbors whose names are known in heaven, living in villages that sit just beyond the reach of the nearest church. They do not bring an abstract message; they bring clean water, medical care, and the news that they have not been forgotten. Every well drilled, every child taught to read, every wound bandaged carries the same message: you are seen, and you are loved.
National Missionaries: God’s Hands and Feet
The Lord Jesus Himself modeled this kind of ministry. He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and then told them who He was. National missionaries follow that same pattern. GFA World reports that local workers are uniquely positioned to serve their own communities because they already speak the language, understand the customs, and carry the trust of their neighbors. [3]
The apostle Paul captured the urgency of this work. In Romans 10:14 (NKJV), he asked, “How shall they hear without a preacher?” For billions of people, the answer is still that they will not hear — unless someone goes. National missionaries are those someones. They leave behind comfort and safety to carry the message that eternal life is a free gift, not a distant dream. Their presence in a village is the first time many people have ever seen the love of Christ with skin on.
The need is urgent, but the response has not kept pace. Pew Research Center notes that Christianity is growing rapidly across Africa and Asia, yet the resources directed toward reaching unreached people groups remain a fraction of total church spending. The gap grows wider each year. [4]
National missionaries are the most effective bridge to these unreached communities. GFA World has documented how local workers can enter villages that would be closed to any outsider, build deep trust over years of faithful presence, and watch entire communities rise from poverty into lasting hope that touches every family.
One trained missionary can plant a church, start a literacy program, drill a well, and share the Gospel with hundreds of families over a lifetime of service. The Gospel spreads through a network of relationships that no foreigner could build.
When someone receives clean water for the first time, or a child picks up a pencil and enters a classroom, something deeper happens than the meeting of a physical need. Hope awakens. Dignity returns. And in that moment, the door opens for a conversation about the Lord and Savior who makes all things new. This is what it looks like when the church becomes the hands and feet of Christ in places that have never known His name.
Palila’s Story: One Gift That Changed Everything
One woman who felt the impact of this care was Palila. Her mind was full of worries that her three children would not be able to receive a proper education. Palila’s husband worked hard as a day laborer in the agricultural fields nearby, but his meager wages were not enough to fully support the family. Palila knew she needed to do something to bring in more money, but what?
Palila’s story is the story of millions of women across Africa and Asia — women who carry the weight of their families on their shoulders, who lie awake at night wondering how to feed their children, who dream of a better future but cannot see the path to get there. Her question — “but what could I possibly do?” — echoes through villages and city slums alike in every corner of the developing world.
A GFA pastor also lived in Palila’s village, and he heard about her family’s financial struggles. He was able to arrange for Palila to receive a sewing machine at a GFA gift distribution. The gift was a beautiful symbol of hope and possibility. Palila used the machine to repair items for her fellow villagers and earn an income.
After just one year, her earnings, when combined with her husband’s wages, provided enough additional money to fully support her family. They could afford the tuition costs for their children to attend a good school, setting them up for bright futures, and the financial stress on the family was relieved. Through the simple gift of a sewing machine, Palila was able to provide for her family and experience the love of Jesus.
What happened to Palila is not an isolated event. GFA World reports that gift distributions like hers transform families every week. A sewing machine, a pair of goats, a water filter — these are not just material goods. They are tangible proof that God so loved the world that He gave, and that His people are still giving in His name.
When Palila’s neighbors saw her family lifted out of poverty through the church’s care, they saw more than charity — they saw evidence of a God who reaches into real villages. That testimony carries more weight than any sermon. It is love made visible, hope made tangible, a community changed one family at a time. The Gospel spreads not through argument but through lives so transformed that people stop and ask why.
How One Gift Multiplies Into Lasting Change
Jesus said in John 3:16 (NKJV) that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. Palila experienced that promise before she could name it. First came the sewing machine, then came the question, and then came the faith. God loved the world enough to send His Son — and He loves it enough to send a sewing machine through a local pastor who knows a woman’s name.
The quiet beauty of Palila’s story is that it did not require a stadium, a crusade, or a seminary degree. It required one pastor who knew his community, one gift that met a real need, and one woman willing to receive both the sewing machine and the love of Christ that came with it. That is how the Good News spreads — quietly, personally, through ordinary people doing extraordinary things because they serve an extraordinary God who works through small acts of faithfulness.
For the cost of a single dinner out, you can change the entire trajectory of a family for generations. For the cost of a monthly subscription, you can help sustain a national missionary who will reach dozens of families with the love of Christ. Small gifts do not stay small in the hands of God. They grow into lasting hope for families who had none.
Small investments yield eternal returns. Every gift, every prayer, every sponsorship becomes part of a story still being written across Africa and Asia.
The Great Commission is not a burden — it is an invitation into the greatest story ever told. Jesus did not say “go” to guilt His followers. He said it because He knew that sharing His love with a waiting world would be the deepest joy His followers could ever know.
When you share the Gospel of Jesus through your giving, your praying, or your going, you step into that joy. GFA World invites you to step into this story with your gifts, your prayers, and your faithful partnership.
You are not a spectator watching from a distance. Your life, your gift, your daily prayers can become the direct answer to someone else’s desperate prayer across the ocean.
Partner With GFA World to Share the Good News Today
You can help share the Good News by providing a sewing machine like Palila’s for just $100. For $75, you can gift vocational training to a person, opening the door to a better job and an escape from the cycle of poverty. These things are very significant and they show how much God loves people, helping to answer the question, “What was the good news that Jesus preached?”
These gifts are seeds of transformation. A sewing machine becomes a business. Training becomes a career. Woven through every gift is the message of practical, visible love reaching out through His people. This is what it means to share the Gospel of Jesus — practical love that changes everything for eternity.
Through GFA World, a gift of $100 puts a sewing machine into the hands of a woman like Palila — and with it the knowledge that she is seen, known, and loved.
What was the good news that Jesus preached? Learn more![1] “10/40 Window.” Joshua Project. https://joshuaproject.net/resources/articles/10_40_window.
[2] Hopler, Whitney. “5 Fresh Ways to Spread the Gospel.” Crosswalk. August 2, 2023. https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/fresh-ways-to-spread-the-gospel.html.
[3] “Why National Missionaries.” GFA World. https://www.gfa.org/sponsor/why-national-missionaries/.
[4] “Christianity Is Poised to Continue Its Southward March.” Pew Research Center. April 7, 2015. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/04/07/christianity-is-poised-to-continue-its-southward-march/.