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76. Behold The Man Who Trained Disciples

Luke 10:1-20

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... out as lambs among wolves." Now, sending them out was important not only on that occasion, but also it later became the same method the early church used in its mission to carry the gospel around the world. Jesus gave the twelve what we call "the great commission." He sent them out. That is the method Jesus used. It is still the best method -- sending out disciples to spread the good news about Jesus Christ, the Kingdom of God, the mission of the church of Christ. What if our church had seventy people, or ...

77. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

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Phil Thrailkill

... Greenwich Mean Time, and with my little finger to trace the voyages of his troop transport hauling Marines back from exotic places like Saipan and Tinian. It was more than a lesson in locations; it was an invitation to a larger world and eventually to a Great Commission. It was only the flat surface of map, but it richly furnished my boyhood imagination and gave me an uncanny sense of direction. Often between 7:00 and 7:30pm Lori sits in amazement as I answer obscure Jeopardy questions that have to do with ...

78. What's in It for Me?

Mark 10:17-31

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Michael Milton

... . He has one question, What’s in it for me, and what do I have to do to get it? Here is the second person. He is called. He is gifted. He serves as an elder and a Sunday school teacher. He knows his Bible. He is committed to the Great Commission. He shares his faith. He is a true man of prayer. He is raising his family in the faith. He is a disciple of Jesus Christ. That is what people think, and that is the truth. But he also struggles. He struggles with one question, What is in it for ...

79. Encounters With Christ VI: Jesus and Caiaphas

Matthew 26:57-68

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James W. Moore

... could take it away. But why was Jesus such a threat to Caiaphas? What did Jesus do that upset Caiaphas so much? Why did Caiaphas want to silence Him? Let me see if I can bring some light to this. We have all heard of Jesus’ Great Commission to “Go into all the world and make disciples.” But what got Him into trouble with Caiaphas and the other religious authorities of His time was what we might call “The Great Permission.” He permitted… or set people free to do three things, which before His ...

80. Achieving Peak Performance

Matthew 28:16-20

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Mark Trotter

... organized in such a way that only the smallest percentage of the members of this church can participate. There is another reason for that. We always thought that God's mission, God's work, was done someplace else. Just by definition, the Great Commission that ministering to all nations, making disciples of all nations, meant other nations someplace else. Christians went faithfully over there to carry out a mission. That isn't quite accurate. Christians sent somebody else over there to carry out that mission ...

81. Lifelong Disciples

Matthew 28:16-20

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James McCormick

... words, and in them he was saying something important to his followers. He told them, and us, what he wants his followers to do, and he assures us that he will be with us as we do it. We call these last words of Jesus “The Great Commission.” According to Jesus, the primary task of the Church is to make disciples, and that is a two part process: first, we are to help people to be born into the Christian life. That happens through conversion – that is, being turned around. Turned away from inadequate ...

82. Nehemiah: The Fix

Nehemiah 1:1-11

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... A. And that leads right into the very last lesson of VBS which was how we serve. Nehemiah knew that the best way to strengthen our faith is by putting it into action, by doing something with it just like the apostle Peter. That's what the great commission is all about serving. Jesus told us to go into all the world with the Good News, preaching, teaching, baptizing, making disciples, feeding, nourishing and caring for God's flock in the world today. B. In other words, we all need to serve, that's the way ...

83. A Sign Of Divine Protection

Exodus 12:1-30

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Walter Kimbrough

... as a result of numerous disappointments in business transactions, let me suggest 10 signs of divine protection so that your negatives in life might turn into positive results. Obedience: The willingness to follow orders. At face value the Great Commission appears to be so simple that even an elementary school child could understand. It requires neither special training nor degrees. The key words, “go,” “make,” “baptize” and “teach” are easy to understand. Under closer scrutiny it is clear ...

84. The Cunning Craftsman, God

Luke 18:9-14

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Allan J. Weenink

... accept and practice what we so glibly mouth, is evidenced by charred ruins and twisted girders of frustration. Our diminishing global influence and importance in the eyes of the world attests to the indifferent attitudes harbored by the multitudes who have not clearly heard the great commission to witness and serve as demonstrated by our common Lord. It is a good world that God has designed, but it is not a beautiful world for the eye to see. For here and there and more frequently than we want to admit, we ...

85. The Mission of Christ Church

Nehemiah 6:1-14

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Bill Bouknight

... than contemporary worship, or vice-versa. Anything to divert us from making, maturing, and mobilizing disciples. But I call us today to imitate Nehemiah, to claim our mission and to refuse to be distracted from it. FIRST, WE ARE TO MAKE DISCIPLES. That is the great commission in our Bible: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations." It is the sole purpose of the united Methodist Church. A disciple is not just one who tries to act like Jesus. A disciple is one who knows his sins have been forgiven ...

86. The Discipline of Discipleship

Mark 10:17-31

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David E. Leininger

... August company? DISCIPLINE! Now take that DISCIPLINE root and move to its etymological cousin DISCIPLESHIP. That is a word that is bandied around a lot these days. Churches all over the country are very much into "discipleship" programs, and that's GOOD. Jesus' Great Commission to the church was MAKE DISCIPLES (Matt. 28:19). There is a problem with that though. And part of the problem is the fact that there are several definitions for the term DISCIPLE. In the context of the church, people might quote Jesus ...

87. A Most Disagreeable Man

Jonah 3:1-10

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King Duncan

... opens with Jonah sitting on a Mediterranean beach having been spit out of the fish's stomach. Evidently the large fish found Jonah disagreeable too. Jonah's reluctance should remind us of our own. Most of us know what God wants us to do. We know Christ's great commission to go and make disciples. We're also well acquainted with the parable of the Good Samaritan. We know we should be reaching out to others with both our words and our resources. We know these things; we just don't want to act on them. Jonah ...

88. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

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Phil Thrailkill

... just identify us as salt but as the salt of the earth and not just as light but the light of the world. His intent was global and universal. Every corner of this world and every life is to be seasoned by this salt and illumined by this light. The Great Commission to evangelize the world is hidden in seed form in the two parallel phrases, salt of the earth and light of the world. Who we are as his followers is to have a broad ranging effect, not just on the surface of life but deep into all its structures ...

89. Joy in the Journey

119:129-136

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Michael Milton

... to him, he told me that he couldn’t figure out how he got into this mess. As we talked, it became apparent that he had put his trust in a god who didn’t exist. His god gave salvation freely, but had no laws, no plans, no great commissions to be obeyed, no spiritual wars to wage. As a result, this young man dismissed this god as being irrelevant. I thought about years ago when Robert Murray M’Cheyne, the sainted pastor from Dundee who died so young, preached these words to his flock there: Some of ...

90. Are You in Labor?

Luke 10:1-24

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King Duncan

... go out into the fields. Do you understand that? This is the church’s primary reason for being to be reaching out in love as Jesus reached out to a hurting and dying world. The last thing Jesus did before he left this earth was give us the great commission: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19-20a). That is our primary purpose. It is not ...

91. The Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... to teach his disciples. The area referred to was probably the hill country that rose to the north and west of the Sea of Galilee. Mountaintop experiences are frequently mentioned in Matthew (the third temptation, 4:8; the transfiguration, 17:1; the Great Commission, 28:16). That Luke places his sermon on “a level place” after Jesus had come down from the mountain (Luke 6:17ff.) should cause no concern. It is the sermon, not its topographical setting, that is important. Attempts to harmonize often do ...

92. For All the Saints

Luke 19:1-10

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Leonard Sweet

... darkness to light. Today we recall and remember, reflect and respect those who have joined the church eternal. But it's ALL Saints Day. This is also a day for all of us to claim our calling as saints and to reclaim and maybe even rename the Great Commission. When Jesus gave us our mission statement, he declared "Go and make disciples." In other words, "Go and make saints." ALL Saints Day means this is our day too. WE are the saints of Christ's church. Forgiven and filled by Christ's indwelling love, we are ...

93. Holy, Holy, Holy

John 16:12-15

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Arley K. Fadness

... Testament nor in the gospels. It is not in any of Paul's epistles. You'll find it nowhere in the entire New Testament. Nonetheless, the roots, the trunk, the branches, the essence of the trinity tree flowers and blooms throughout the Bible. In the Great Commission, Jesus instructs his disciples to baptize "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 28:19). The apostle Paul underscores the reality of the Trinity in 2 Corinthians 13:13, with a blessing to the Corinthian ...

94. The Gospel of God in Christ through Paul

Romans 1:1-17

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... Christians (compare 1:11–12 with 15:14–22). There is no room here for pitting the “true” gospel (theology) against the “social” gospel (meeting the tangible needs of humankind). The latter is the platform for and entailment of the former. Fourth, the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19–20) has not been rescinded. So it was that Paul was committed to reaching the world with the gospel, and so it should be for the modern church. If the church lets go of its petty disagreements, thereby freeing up ...

95. The Womb of Amazing Grace

John 4:5-42

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... and doing God's work. In a similar way, if a farmer wants his farmland to grow over in weeds and stubble, all he needs to do is not sow for one season. We are called to bear witness for Jesus' sake. His last great command -- we call it the Great Commission -- was "go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the ...

96. Sharing God's Vision

Acts 2:1-21

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” This is a pivotal moment in human history. It’s the beginning of the worldwide Christian church. It is the kickoff to the Great Commission, when Jesus commanded his followers to “go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” (Matthew 28: 19) It is also ...

97. A Meal with Friends

Luke 9:10-17

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David E. Leininger

... friends around him - 12 of them - and relied on them to help spread the word. As the time came for him to end his earthly ministry, his instructions were to get out there and make MORE disciples, more friends - we call it the Great Commission. The result of that instruction was the formation of the church - more friends gathered together in the name of Jesus. Even now, in our Presbyterian tradition, the two sacraments we regularly celebrate (Baptism and the Lord's Supper) are communal: baptism is our ...

98. Christ The King

Revelation 1:1-3

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King Duncan

... faced everyone and led them in a chorus of "You Are My Sunshine." But then, Tony is braver than most of us. Anyway, the leader of this men's group was extolling his listeners to use an elevator ride as an opportunity to fulfill the great commission to evangelize others. "People will remain silent in an elevator," he said, "staring at the floor number." Challenging the men to use their imagination, he asked, "What do you suppose Jesus would say to the people in an elevator?" There was an immediate response ...

99. From Russia With Love

Acts 3:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... going to do it. People do need to be converted. But that's not enough. We must plan and pray and pray and plan. It's going to take money, but more than money, it's going to take people who believe and believe with all their might, the Great Commission, "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature". It's going to take people who believe that Jesus Christ can make an eternal difference in the life of a person. A difference between eternal life and eternal death. It's going to take people who ...

100. Let's Dance

Matthew 28:16-20

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Leonard Sweet

... his disciples to go, make disciples, and baptize them in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit, he called believers to participate in this divine dance, the perichoresis, of intertwining attributes and relational rhythms. The greatness of the great commission is not just found in the expanded geography of the mission ("make disciples of all nations") but in the totality of these new disciples' relationship with the divine. The reconciling act of Christ on the cross has finally put human beings ...

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