TOPIC: THE GREAT COMMISSION
TEXT: Matthew 28:18-20(NKJV)
- 28:18. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
- 28:19. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
- 28:20. “teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, [even] to the end of the age.” Amen.
STUDY:
The Christian Missionary Society was founded in 1799 in England with the aim of reaching the world outside England, with the Gospel. The mission came into Nigeria in 1841 in what is called the first Niger Expedition. However, it was during the second Niger expedition, led by the Rev. Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who later became the first black African Bishop, that the Mission was established.
The Mission ensured the growth of Christianity in Nigerian. Christian Missions also brought education, health services and agricultural development which resulted in economic empowerment and stopped uncivilised ritual activities such as killing of twins. There are people who accuse Christian Missions of helping slavery. But in actual fact, it was the missionaries who rose as advocates for the stopping of slave trade.
In our reading today, our Lord concluded his final instructions to his disciples by telling them what was uppermost in his heart: That all nations might be made disciples through the missionary activities of his apostles. The instruction was “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations…”
This is called the Great Commission, and all who have been saved and have been rightly instructed in the word of God are meant to be involved in the task by using the different platforms (vocation, professions, groups, communities, etc.), available to them, to make disciples. We must note that the gospel is the only means by which men can be rescued from darkness into God’s marvelous light.
PRAYER:
Dear Lord, please help your church to be more committed to the course of the Gospel, Amen!
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