tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21789110.post113897266936026787..comments2023-11-03T04:15:09.033-05:00Comments on Can You Hear Me Now?: MY "Great Commission"kpjarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02425417734069925095noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21789110.post-1139061839311386732006-02-04T08:03:00.000-06:002006-02-04T08:03:00.000-06:00Wow, thanks David for helping clarify this much mi...Wow, thanks David for helping clarify this much misunderstood lesson. I honestly have never heard it put quite that way and it makes miracles even more precious and "God-sent" that it is a natural occurrence in His presence. I will spend some time this week reviewing the text and trying to hear from God about church and our "commission".kpjarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02425417734069925095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21789110.post-1138999241744364412006-02-03T14:40:00.000-06:002006-02-03T14:40:00.000-06:00The verb in Matthews’s account of the Great Commis...The verb in Matthews’s account of the Great Commission is MAKE. The intended action is make disciples. The go most preachers speak about is actually better translated, "As you are going..." implying as you go about your regular life, make disciples. The location, if different than the one God has already placed you, is up to God's calling on your life. If God calls you to Africa, then to Africa you should go. However, you have been placed where you are, at this moment, for some purpose. While there, make disciples.<BR/>I always point to the first century church to explain miracles. Read carefully the passages about the church. Someone went someplace and started to share Christ's gospel [notice the text] and by the way some miracles happened. Miracles were not the focus of the action. Miracles happened. They are normative of the experience of sharing the gospel. They normally happen. Why else would the writers be so nonchalant about them. I would yell it from the rooftops, "look at the mighty miracle God has done!" The writers just mention miracles as another small part of the overall movement and work of God. Miracles happen everyday, all around us. The resistance to miracles reminds me of the movie the Matrix, where Morpheus asks in a very Jewish Rabbi kind of way, “What is real?” Miracles are real. God is real. It is the resistance to God that is temporary and futile at best. This world is passing away. The Kingdom of God is eternal and thus the only real, substantial thing. Preach it Sister.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16867717762499987527noreply@blogger.com