Sacred Roots Thriving in Ministry: Moving Forward to Multiply

P lenary 3 Unlimited Impact: Matthew 28.18-20 Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis

Every Christian Is to Go into Their World

The Christian is to go into all the world, “even to the uttermost part.” This certainly includes every Christian’s personal world, for it takes all the personal worlds of all the Christians scattered over the earth added together to cover the geographical world. The whole church is to go into the whole world. The central activity of the church is to witness or to share. Sharing is the main work of the whole church throughout the whole world. Taking the message to“every creature” suggests that the individual work of every Christian is to share with every unsaved person. Matthew adds Christ’s promise, “Lo, I am with you all the days, even to the consummation of the age.” In other words, this work is to be continued throughout the whole age.

~ Roy J. Fish and J. E. Conant, Every Member Evangelism. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2009, p. 16.

I. An Overly-ambitious Charge

Was Jesus’s commission unrealistic, simply too ambitious, for the apostolic band?

A. A global charge

B. To a lay, provincial people

C. To common and unlearned leaders

D. Nascent and fragile beginnings

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