2. The Great Commission Biblical History & Where we are? The Great Commission Our Commission as Christians Our Commission to GO! Our Commission as Leaders Our Commission as a Local Church Where are you?

4. You Are Here! “The Great Commission”

5. We get to be part of the Greatest Mission on Earth!

6. Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came and spoke to them saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 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, 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.”

7. The 7 “All’s” of the Great Commission 1- All disciples were given this command 2- All authority everywhere belongs to Jesus 3- All nations are to be discipled 4- All things Jesus taught are to be taught 5- All Jesus taught is to be obeyed 6- All places Jesus will be 7- All time will have Jesus

8. Our Commission as Christians John 17:3Acts 1:8 2 Peter 3:18 Mark 16:15

10. You Someone else Others… More… Making Disciples is an intentional investment in another person with the goal of reproducing Christ’s life and mission!

11. Our Commission as Leaders Ephesians 4:11-16 “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; then we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro…but, speaking the truth in love, we may grow up in all things into Him who is the head-Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, and causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.”

12. Ephesians 4 Commission of Church Leaders

13. The Commission of the Local Church

14. 1 Corinthians 12:4-6 There are a diversity of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. There are diversities if activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.

15. One God One Gospel One Mission “The Great Commission ” Different People Different Gifts Different Methods Different Ministries The Local Church

16. Summary of the Great Commission

17. Where are you? 1- Do you know God? 2- Are you actually growing in God? How? 3- Are you making disciples? Who? How? 4- Are you actively building up the local Church? How? Are you using your gifts? 5- What can you change today to make Christ’s Great Commission your mission?