Our college daughter Karlyn and I are taking fourteen high school students to Nicaragua tomorrow so I won’t write next week. We will be working with an organization called Amigos For Christ to help bring water to a community. We would appreciate your prayers!
We know Jesus told His apostles to go into all the world to make disciples and to baptize and to teach the ways of Jesus. And while it is right to see the Great Commission as an important command, it is also possible to see it as an invitation.
“I am with you!” What beautiful words! Jesus wanted His love and His death and His resurrection to be known beyond Israel. He wanted those who had never even heard of God to know Him. He wanted the pagans, the savages, and the heathen to see His Father… one who loved the world so much that He sacrificed His only Son.
Every apostle except John is thought to have died a violent death in his effort to spread the Gospel; John was exiled on the Isle of Patmos. Would they say it was worth it? I think so… and each would say: “Jesus was true to His word… He was with me.”
He’s with us too!
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
“All authority in heaven and 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.” Matthew 28:18-20