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The Mission of the Church

  • I Am with You Always

    Matthew ends his Gospel account with a breathtaking promise from Christ to His disciples: "Behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." This promise of...

  • Living Under Christ's Lordship

    Discipleship is a life of learning to observe all that Christ commanded. Christ is the Lord of heaven and earth and...

  • Baptized Into Christ

    The Great Commission is to make disciples by proclaiming the Gospel of Christ (the historical Christ of the Bible). This is essential because...

  • Baptized Into Covenant

    The Great Commission is a charge to declare the terms of God's Covenant of Grace in the preaching of the Gospel. The Covenant of...

  • Baptism: A Sign and Seal

    Baptism, like the preaching of the Word and the Lord's Table, is a means of grace. The blessings and realities of...

  • Discipleship and Baptism

    While the church battles over the mode of baptism (sprinkling, pouring or immersion), the significance of baptism for discipleship is often...

  • The Name of the Triune God

    The baptismal formula in the Great Commission is clearly trinitarian. The significance of baptism into the name of...

  • Discipleship and the Name

    In Matthew 28:19, the command of the Great Commission is to make disciples. The salvation Christ came to provide is not a mere escape from judgment. Jesus frees...

  • Hearing Jesus in the Word Preached

    Among today's evangelicals, preaching has suffered at the hands of innovation. Some preachers have replaced Gospel proclamation with personal stories and entertaining anecdotes. Others have...

  • Following His Word or Feelings?

    The individualistic, experiential society of today has had a negative impact on the church. For many, feelings, emotions and intuition have displaced the Scriptures as...

  • Discipleship: How We Know Him

    Discipleship is about knowing Christ. In our age of subjectivity, knowing Jesus is often considered a matter of personal experience. However, one...

  • Discipleship: How We Hear Him

    Among today's evangelicals, preaching has suffered at the hands of innovation. Some preachers have replaced Gospel proclamation with personal stories and entertaining anecdotes. Others have...

  • Discipleship: Hearing His Voice

    Discipleship is about knowing the Lord. As disciples of Jesus, we have been entrusted with the Gospel. We are ...

  • Disciples Attain Righteousness

    The point of discipleship is to mend our sin fractured relationship with God. Discipleship is based on the covenant of redemption established by Him. The objective is...

  • Discipleship: To Know and Trust

    Rabbis typically taught their disciples the intricacies of the Law and stressed the diligent performance in keeping the Law that they might be found acceptable before God. Jesus spoke...

  • Discipleship: He Knows Us First

    Christian discipleship is first and foremost about knowing Christ. To know Him as Redeemer and Lord is to love Him. And to love Him is to keep His commandments. This is...

  • Discipleship: Knowing God

    Discipleship is first and foremost concerned with learning who Christ is and what He has done for His people. In John 17:3, in the context of Christ's...

  • Discipleship is Comprehensive

    While the word "disciple" means learner or pupil, the biblical notion of discipleship is much different than...

  • Made for Discipleship

    The imperative of the Great Commission is to make disciples of all nations. This command reveals how God's redemptive purpose is to...

  • Disciples of Our Lord

    The command of the Great Commission is to make disciples. In biblical times, one was a disciple of another person, not a school of thought. To be a disciple one...

  • Who Must Go?

    While the command of the Great Commission is not to "go" but to "make disciples," the fact that such disciples are...

  • Go, Therefore

    The Great Commission is recorded in at least five of Christ's post-resurrection appearances. They all, either...

  • The Gospel or Felt Needs

    Despite the popularity of attempting to reach people by appealing to their felt needs as a means of opening the door to the Gospel, it is unbiblical and...

  • The Gospel Confronts Culture

    Christ has commissioned His church to proclaim the exclusive Gospel of Christ to the world. While becoming Christ's disciple will...

  • Remember the Divine Plot Line

    The individualistic, experiential society of today has had a negative impact on the church. For many, feelings, emotions and intuition have displaced the Scriptures as...

  • Keeping the Gospel Pure

    The church's emphasis of experience over doctrine and lack of spiritual discernment have combined with fallen humanity's penchant for pelagianism to weaken her...

  • The Exclusive Gospel

    Is the Gospel inclusive or exclusive? It depends on who you ask. However, according to Scripture, the Gospel is both. From the perspective of...

  • Authority Over Unseen Powers

    In His humanity, Jesus not only won authority over all the earth but also defeated the unseen forces of evil (principalities and powers). When the Gospel is...

  • The Kingdom Comes in Power

    The features of the Great Commission were prophesied by Daniel in the Old Testament. The Son of Man is pictured as ascending into...

  • Jesus is the One

    The end of Matthew's account is very selective. He only records one post-resurrection appearance of Christ to His disciples. However...

  • Understanding Through Worship

    Before Jesus died, He spoke to His disciples plainly about the cross and resurrection. However, they could not...

  • Christ is in Control

    Despite Christ's preparations, the disciples didn't expect the cross. When Jesus was apprehended and put to death, His disciples experienced a profound crisis of faith. They believed...

  • But Some Doubted

    At the time Jesus gave the Great Commission the disciples were still reeling from their crisis of faith. Despite the fact...

  • Our Worshipful Purpose

    The Great Commission spells out the church's mission. But that mission is giving in the context of God's purpose which...

  • The Mission of the Church

    The Great Commission is often considered only in terms of foreign missions. There is one mission of...