We’ve heard the Great Commission many times. We may even be able to recite these words of Jesus. But do we believe them? By that, I mean, “Do we seek to obey Christ’s command in the Great Commission?

This is French artist James Tissot’s depiction of Jesus Christ exhorting his disciples to evangelize the world. Tissot lived from 1836-1902. (Courtesy Photo) Jesus’ Great Commission in Matthew ...

In my most recent post I observed that many congregations and followers of Jesus are failing to pursue Jesus’ Great Commission, to “go and make disciples…teaching them to observe all that I have ...

This past summer, from evangelical churches nationwide, more than one million of the faithful departed for the mission field, taking up Jesus’ “Great Commission” to “go and make disciples of all ...

According to Dr. W. Oscar Thompson (Concentric Circles of Concern), Matthew 28:19-20 seems to emphasize the word, “Go,” but that is not the way to translate it in Greek. The emphasis should be on, ...

At the time of the Great Commission as Matthew records it (28:16–20), more than a week—we do not know just how much time—had passed since the first Easter Day. The disciples of Jesus had returned ...

The Church is under orders. The risen Lord has commanded it to “go,” to “preach,” to “make disciples”; and that is enough. The Church engages in evangelism today, not because it wants to or because it ...