It is often good for leaders to refrain from sharing everything. Some things need to remain untold. However, when the omission relates to the magnificent, tongues must be loosened and lips unbridled. This is the tale that is critical to reality, and deserves dissemination to a wide audience.
When leaders fail to tell such a tale, eventually people will rightly ask:
Why?
Was he hiding something?
Was she ignorant to the fact?
Why are we just finding out this truth?
What else does he not know–or not sharing?
What has been her agenda?
Here is one of the untold stories of my generation:
| India | 82,950 |
| China, PRC | 20,000 |
| Nigeria | 6,644 |
| Philippines | 4,500 |
| Indonesia | 3,000 |
| Ghana | 2,000 |
| Mexico | 794 |
| Bangladesh | 500 |
Select Countries and Number of Missionaries They are Sending
We went for 200 years and few of us were told about the use of our means for the conversion of the peoples (neither were we encouraged to make an inquiry to our leaders).
People went and the peoples are now sending! A magnificent tale!
Leaders, don’t keep the magnificent tales to yourselves. Make sure the right untold stories are being told. If not, people will rightly question your story.
(Table source: Strangers Next Door, page 154, adapted from Operation World, 7th edition data and correspondence with editor)
Thanks, J.D., for telling as it is. We need to hear things of this kind and am glad that you did it. So, please keep them coming.
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