GO - The Great Commission - Go and Make Disciples
THE MANDATE, THE MISSION AND THE METHOD Yeshua trained twelve disciples and sent them 2x2 ( Mark 6:7 ). They went and made seventy disciples. He then sent them 2x2 with an Ekklesia planting strategy ( Luke 10:1-9 ). They planted Ekklesias in the ‘houses of peace’. He then empowered 120 ‘persons of peace’ with Holy Spirit and they baptized 3000 people. They went and multiplied disciples that starting from Jerusalem, reached the ends of the earth. The Lord has given His Ekklesia the mandate to go and make disciples of all nations, tongues and tribes ( Matt. 28:18-20 ). Thus, the Ekklesia’s focus must be on finding and saving the lost until panta ta ethne is discipled. The Great Commission is the core of the core, the driving agenda, the primal mission and the mandate, and the raison d’être or the reason for the existence of the Ekklesia. This is important because it is the last command of Yeshua to go to the ends of the earth as His witnesses and make disciples of all nations. That apost...