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The Great Commission
Matthew 28:18-20
Every church can fulfill God’s charge by being involved in three activities given in the Great Commission.
Introduction:
Look at the cake mix on the screen.
We have the instructions for making a cake.
At the top there is a list of the ingredients.
Then you have three steps.
If we were going to us this our goal would be to make a cake.
In order to make the cake we need to follow the directions.
We can’t say that there is one direction which is more important than another.
All of the stpes need to be followed in order to make a cake.
We need to keep in mind that our goal is to make a cake.
In the passage we are studying today there is a single goal that Jesus is stating.
Then there are steps to accomplish that goal.
In the great Commission Jesus commands his disciples to “make disciples of all nations.”
This was an imperative phrase that Jesus uses.
In the Greek language he was emphasizing this little prhase, saying this is of great importance.
Make sure you pay close attention to this.
The other things in these verses that appear to be commands are participles.
The participles are words or phrases that are used to tell us how to carry out the command.
So the command that Jesus gives is to make disciples.
Disciples are followers or students.
The disciples went from here and established the first churches.
They had people who followed them.
Today this church is to be involved in the same activities.
We are to be making disciples.
We should have people who are students, learning and reproducing the things that they are taught here.
Jesus gives us in this passage three activities that every person can be involved in that will help them to make disciples.
Activity I. Evangelism
A. Jesus begins the great Commission by telling his disciples that “all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Him.”
This is a pretty big gift, and responsibility that Jesus has been given.
This is something that Jesus has been given.
Since he has been given so much, we can go.
Some people like to translate this “as you are going”.
In other words as you go about your business make disciples.
While Alan Jordan was showing his pictures last Sunday two things that stood out were the games of Uno and Twister.
These are probably two things that we would not consider church planting tools.
They are more in the line of fun things to do.
Why not involve people in those things so that they can see how a Christian handles day to day stuff.
They can see that it is alright to just have fun.
These would be “as you are going” kinds of activities.
B.
I started reading a book called “UnChristian.”
In the book the author spent a lot of time talking to non-Christian people to get an idea of how Christians are viewed.
Some of the people stated that Christians befriend you just so you will go to church with them.
I guess the rest of the world is not as dumb as we thought they were.
That is they see it, but is that how we see our relationships with non-Christian people?
That might be what we are thinking, but we need to get in our head that our goal is not just to get them to church.
Our goal should be to help them come to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ.
That might never happen if we can’t just be friends with these people.
Maybe they will never come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, does that mean we should not be their friends?
We should be friends because that is what Jesus called us to do.
If someone comes to Christ as a result of being my friend, that is great, if not then so be it.
C.
A lot of people can think of Evangelism as a big deal.
It does not need to be a big deal.
It can be something as simple as having some friends play a game with you.
As Jesus was sending the disciples out on their own he gave them these final words, “"The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.
Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Luke 10:2.
Christians need to be friends with non-Christians.
The first goal is to simply be a friend, then if the opportunity presents itself share the love of Jesus with them.
D.
This is an area where we are pretty weak as a church.
We have very little that we do in this area.
I hope that you will join me in praying for someone who would have a passion in this area who would be able to help us to do better in the area of evangelism.
Activity II.
Spiritual Growth
A. The second participle is baptize.
The command again is to make disciples, and the participle is how that command is accomplished.
I am going to use the reference that I am accustomed to.
When a person comes to me to be baptized I want to know about when they became a Christian.
I want to know about what has been happening in their life.
Because I want to know that there is something changed in their life.
They need to be experiencing spiritual growth in their life.
Baptism is not a magic formula that changes a person’s life.
Baptism is the sign of the change that has already taken place.
I feel that it is my job to see if there has been real change which has taken place.
B.
I cannot know for sure if a person has really had a life changing experience.
I can make sure that they know what they are doing and why they are doing it.
A person who is baptized is probably not going to be perfect, but they are indicating with their desire for baptism that they are striving to live a godly life.
This person is not completely without God and they are not really at a place of perfection.
They are somewhere in the middle.
That is why I have chosen to use the phrase spiritual growth.
They have room to grow and mature in their spiritual life.
I think that every person who becomes a Christian has some of this in their life.
They have room to learn and grow.
C.
A disciple is a student and a follower.
The goal of the church is make people who are disciples.
Part of the way in which this is accomplished is through basic commitment to Jesus Christ.
With almost everything a person does there is some kind of a learning curve connected with it.
In this case it means learning what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ.
D.
Within our church the majority of what we do focuses on this very thing.
We go to Sunday School and we learn about what it means to be a Christian.
We come to church and the majority of the time the focus is on being a Christian.
Even in our Bible Studies we spend our time focusing on being a Christian.
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