If anyone wonders whether the Great Commission is “relevant” today, they may as well ask if plowing and harvesting are relevant or if getting out of bed is!
Relevant is not the word. The task is urgent. It is supposed to be our existence. A Christian is a witness. The name “Christian” developed because it easily identified believers – they were the people who always talked about Christ. The Christian’s business is not busyness, but witness. Witnessing is the commerce of the people of the Kingdom of God.
God’s Word for God’s People
Zechariah 9:10
I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
And the horse from Jerusalem;
The battle bow shall be cut off.
He shall speak peace to the nations;
His dominion shall be ‘from sea to sea,
And from the River to the ends of the earth.’
Questions in Job
38:22-23
“Have you entered the treasury of snow,
Or have you seen the treasury of hail,
Which I have reserved for the time of trouble,
For the day of battle and war?
38:24
By what way is light diffused,
Or the east wind scattered over the earth?
Thoughts
. To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar. – Unknown
. To be honest, to be kind—to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation—above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself—here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. - Robert Louis Stevenson
[Message No: 7447]
Relevant is not the word. The task is urgent. It is supposed to be our existence. A Christian is a witness. The name “Christian” developed because it easily identified believers – they were the people who always talked about Christ. The Christian’s business is not busyness, but witness. Witnessing is the commerce of the people of the Kingdom of God.
God’s Word for God’s People
Zechariah 9:10
I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
And the horse from Jerusalem;
The battle bow shall be cut off.
He shall speak peace to the nations;
His dominion shall be ‘from sea to sea,
And from the River to the ends of the earth.’
Questions in Job
38:22-23
“Have you entered the treasury of snow,
Or have you seen the treasury of hail,
Which I have reserved for the time of trouble,
For the day of battle and war?
38:24
By what way is light diffused,
Or the east wind scattered over the earth?
Thoughts
. To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar. – Unknown
. To be honest, to be kind—to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation—above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself—here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. - Robert Louis Stevenson
[Message No: 7447]
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