“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 the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:18-20).
This great commission, recorded at the end of the Book of Matthew, gives Christ’s followers the instruction to go and “make disciples” of all peoples, “teaching them to observe” all that Christ had commanded and taught them. They go in the name of Jesus Christ who has been given all authority, who has overcome the world and the militant cycle of death itself, who has inaugurated a whole new order in human affairs called the kingdom of God, who has called out a faithful people to serve as active agents of that kingdom which he will himself consummate at the end of the age.
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