Thursday, February 18, 2016
Rethinking the Great Commission
It is the famous passage from Matthew 28:18-20 about going into all the world and making disciples.
I know how I have mostly heard it used...
and I think I know how should be used.
What if...
Instead of using it to bless missionaries (you know -- those special people)
who are going to a far away place ( you know -- that special place where lost people are)
to do special things (you know -- mission things)
We ended our assemblies by blessing special missionaries (like all of us)
who are going outside the church doors into our world (were lost people are)
to do special things (like live forgiven and forgiving, serving in the name of Jesus, and telling people the good news that Jesus died for their sins and rose from the dead).
What if the Great Commission is really about us, right here and right now, making disciples of the people God and the Holy Spirit place in our lives.
We are the missionaries.
The world is where we live and work.
And making disciples is not an option.
It is our Christian DNA.
And everything we do is drawing people closer to God...
Or driving them further away from God.
God, help us to listen to your call to make disciples in our world.
I know how I have mostly heard it used...
and I think I know how should be used.
What if...
Instead of using it to bless missionaries (you know -- those special people)
who are going to a far away place ( you know -- that special place where lost people are)
to do special things (you know -- mission things)
We ended our assemblies by blessing special missionaries (like all of us)
who are going outside the church doors into our world (were lost people are)
to do special things (like live forgiven and forgiving, serving in the name of Jesus, and telling people the good news that Jesus died for their sins and rose from the dead).
What if the Great Commission is really about us, right here and right now, making disciples of the people God and the Holy Spirit place in our lives.
We are the missionaries.
The world is where we live and work.
And making disciples is not an option.
It is our Christian DNA.
And everything we do is drawing people closer to God...
Or driving them further away from God.
God, help us to listen to your call to make disciples in our world.
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I agree with you that it is important to remind each of us to be a leader in a christian way all the time, we are missionaries. I have been at other christian services where that blessing is invoked at the close of service.
I lean towards the idea that individuals can do more to promote or destroy christiany/churh that any group can.
Just my thoughts,blessings always.
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I lean towards the idea that individuals can do more to promote or destroy christiany/churh that any group can.
Just my thoughts,blessings always.
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