A Practical Study
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Christ's Great Commission was His final command to His disciples. He expected them, and us, to fulfill that command, in order that people everywhere might believe and obtain salvation in His Name. The fact that we have still, after two thousand years, not reached everyone everywhere with the Gospel indicates that we, as Christ's Church, have failed to give ourselves wholly to this task. It is imperative that we all take Christ's Commission seriously, and apply ourselves to its fulfillment. The eternal destiny of those we come in contact with depends upon it!
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Principle 1: Christ Has Given Us the Authority
Application: In Jesus' Name We Must Preach His Gospel to Everyone Everywhere.
We have a choice to make. If there is salvation in no one else save Jesus Christ, and there isn't, then people need to hear this message! God has chosen only one way to spread His Gospel to all nations ... His children! Unless we go and tell others around us, they will never hear. Christ has authorized us and given us His Spirit to take His Gospel to the World! We have been given the ability ... the only question remaining is our availability!
Commit yourself to be available to God, to go wherever He wants you to go and to share with anyone He wants you to share. I promise that when you stand before Christ on that Day, you will not regret ever giving your life in service to God!
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Principle 2: Christ Has Given Us the Strategy
Application: Win, Build and Send People for Christ
Examine the Spiritual Multiplication chart if you haven't done so already. In God's Strategy, one life can impact the lives of millions! Your life can make an eternal impact if you invest it Winning, Building and Sending People for Christ!
Read the Lessons on Follow Up and Discipleship and study them carefully. Then pray that God leads and empowers you as you make yourself available to Win, Build and Send People for Christ. Begin by sharing Christ with those you know. Follow Up any that come to know Christ, and Disciple those that possess the qualities described in the Lessons.
Continue Winning, Building and Sending others till Christ returns or until you've reached every person on this planet ... which ever comes first!
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Principle 3: Christ Has Given Us the Ability
Application: Depend on Christ's Ability in You
One of the most popular excuses people use to exempt themselves from involvement in Christian ministry is their lack of ability. The presence of Christ in our lives completely eliminates that. Christ promised that when the Holy Spirit comes upon us, we would receive power to be His witnesses to the ends of the world! The word He used which is translated "power" means the ability to do a task. God is our ability!
When you are given the opportunity to share Christ with another and falter because of fear of what others may think, remember and know that Christ is with you! Trust Him for His boldness, and share His love in you with the person. His ability just needs a living person to work through. Therefore, offer yourself to God daily and allow Him to live, and talk, and share and disciple others through you! Give yourself wholly to God and He will repay you with a life rich in significance, meaning and eternal rewards!
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."