Four Things

Here's a passage:

18And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in^[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

Matthew 28:18-20

I see four things here that I am supposed to do:

1. Go
2. Make
3. Baptize
4. Teach

Here are some comments about these four things:

1. We have it backwards. We think if we build it they will come. Jesus tells us to go and get them.
2. People are not naturally God's disciples - they have to be made into disciples. We have the ingredients and they are the things of first importance. Paul states them in 1 Corinthians 15.
   
3. As we make disciples, part of the process is baptism. We are born again. We die to ourselves, we are buried in a watery grave and we are raised to walk in that new life. We are, in other words, born again.
4. Once we have made disciples there is still much teaching to do.
   

Sounds like an awesome responsibility. I better get at it before it's forever too late.

Josiah Tilton