There’s a website that tracks reached people groups. There are more “reached” people groups in Mexico (as a percentage of total groups) than the “reached” people groups in the United States.

And yes, I happen to think that what the Monk and his Appalachin students do for their domestic mission trips (just cuz they don’t need passports doesn’t mean they aren’t on mission trips) is just the bomb.

Re: your comment on Jared’s relative youth and blogging– I’m less than 40 (36, to be exact), and despite not having my own blog, I do probably spend too much time in the blogosphere. Neither of those facts necessarily means that I lack scars from the “actual living of life.” We never really know what other people have endured and learned in a certain span of their lives (unless they tell us). I encourage you not to overlook what sounds like a really good book, simply because the author is under 40. I could fill pages here with the scars that life has given me by the age of 36– but I won’t, because I’m not an author, and it might come off as self-indulgent rather than compelling, gripping, or insightful.

I hear your struggles and identify with them. Every sinner has incongruities between his/her claimed beliefs and how he/she lives out *of* those beliefs. The good news is, though, that Jesus had *no* such incongruities, and it is His righteousness that God counts to those who trust in Him alone! About your and my struggles… they will be gone, and we will be with Jesus for eternity, very soon. It may not seem so right now, but that is the blessed truth, my brother in Christ.