Jesus Calls You to Growth:
Numerical and Spiritual Growth!

Your teaching ministry is at the heart of the Great Commission

Often, last words reveal what is most important to an individual. When you drop your child off at a friend’s house for a slumber party, what are your last words? Maybe something like this,

Now Jonny, don’t forget to say, "Yes Ma’am" and "Yes Sir" and to thank them for dinner. Don’t run or yell in the house, and don’t forget to flush the toilet and put the seat down after you use it. I love you . . . have a good time.

Those are the most consequential actions you want to make sure Jonny doesn’t forget, so you save them till just before he gets out of the car.

As Jesus neared the end of his time with us, he also had a short period of time to give a few final instructions. So, what did he choose to emphasize? What did he consider to be the most important instructions he could give us? The answer is “evangelism and teaching.”

Let’s look again at the Great Commission as found in Matthew 28:18–20:

Then Jesus came to them and said, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.'

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