We have a story worth sharing. A story that speaks to the basic need of all humans. A story that tells how God provided a lamb in the person of Jesus Christ. The gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is good news to a fallen world. Christ's miraculous birth into the world, His crucifixion, and His resurrection from the dead has changed the world forever. All people must either deny Him or embrace Him as the only Savior of the world. Either we look away from his death or we look on it in repentance. Either we reject the belief that Christ rose from the dead or we believe it. These events are not neutral. Neither is our response to them.
From a grammatical point of view, there is only one command in Jesus’ Great Commission—and it is not, “Go” (Matthew 28:19–20). Out of the four key verbs in these two verses—go, make disciples, baptize, and teach—only one of them is given as an imperative verb: “make disciples.” That is the Great Commission: make disciples. The other three verbs are given in participle form, suggesting that they are corollary activities to the imperative command to make disciples. In fact, “go” is a passive participle, literally, “having gone.” Therefore, there are three activities required to fulfill the command to make disciples: going, baptizing, and teaching.
So now let's share the story that has changed lives for thousands of years. Start today. No regrets. No retreats.
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