Our Father, when your word is opened, we are all brought under conviction. For to whom much has been given, much will be required. And so our Father, we have now been brought face to face with the urgent nature of the gospel, its global implications. And we have a task now to do something about it.
May this not be a time where we just heap guilt upon ourselves that we later slough off. May this be a time when each and every one of us seriously consider what we might do. To bring about The discipleship of the nations. As Jesus gave in that great commission.
Father, strengthen us with your grace. Empower us for ministry, for your name's sake. Amen. probably one of the best known and, least implemented passages in the New Testament is in Matthew 28 verses 19-20.
Where it says go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you and lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the age. Well, as I told them in the first service, I'm not here to beat you up with this passage this morning. We all sense our shortcomings, I'm sure, with regard to this great commission that we have been given. But I am here to encourage you this morning and to encourage you to keep on trying to take baby steps of obedience and to see what God will do....
