Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. —Matthew 28:19 NKJV Jesus sent his followers to make disciples of all the nations. That mandate may seem obvious to us who know that two thousand years of Christian outreach have been based on this and similar passages. Christianity has spread from its Middle Eastern roots to become a global religion followed by roughly one–third of the worlds population. Modern technology would seem to make expanding that outreach even further a relatively simple task. In many ways, however, we still resemble Jesus original disciples. They wanted a local hero, a Messiah just for Israel, one who would keep their customs and confirm their prejudices. They were no doubt stunned by the scope and implications of the cross–cultural vision that Jesus presented. He was more than the King of the Jews. He was the global Christ, the Savior of the entire world. One of the greatest challenges we will face as we move together into the future is the same difficulty that the original disciples faced at the inauguration of the Christian movement: not merely to acknowledge but to act on the fact that Jesus truly is Lord of all the nations. Excerpted from a Focus article in The Modern Life Study Bible -TNBN-
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:01:29 +0000
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