The classmate posts discuss personal evangelism and the command of Jesus in Matthew 28:18-20 to "go and make disciples". Classmate 1 defines personal evangelism as one person talking to another about salvation through Jesus Christ. They believe this should be a lifetime practice, not just for a test. Classmate 2 discusses how the early church practiced personal evangelism by going daily to the temple and visiting houses, which allowed them to worship and have discussions that led people to salvation. Both agree the command to "go ye" in Matthew means all Christians should go and teach others as part of their daily lives and interactions with people, not just the apostles. This was Jesus' mission to seek and save

1. What is personal teaching/evangelism and how does it apply to
your congregation today? Does Go Ye really mean Go Me and
what is the imperative in Matthew 28:18-20?
REPLY TO 2 OF MY CLASSMATES DISCUSSION TO THE
ABOVE QUESTIONS AND EXPLAIN WHY YOU AGREE.
MINIMUM OF 200 WORDS EACH
CLASSMATE POST 1
Personal Teaching is one person talking to another person about
his/her need for the salvation that is found only in Jesus Christ,
the Savior of all people (Matt. 1:21–23; Acts 4:12)!
This is the definition I desire you to learn not just for test
purposes but for a lifetime of teaching. Agree? Or Disagree?
Lost humanity must get to know, on a personal basis, Jesus
Christ, the Son of the living God to be saved eternally (Matt.
16:16). The purpose of talking to the lost about salvation in
Christ is to bring him to a positive decision. The place of this
kind of discussion or Bible Study is unimportant. It can happen
in the home, workplace, on the street, in a doctor’s office, or
even while traveling. However, the discussion must take place
before reaching the lost can possibly happen! The important
thing to remember is we must talk to people about their
salvation while we talk about every other subject under the sun.
NOW:
I want you to respond to the questions above and share with me
and other class members, “What is happening with Personal
Teaching in your congregation?” You have not mentioned this
in your posts. I cannot help you unless I know where you are
right now. I will look forward to your response.
What is happening in your congregation concerning personal
evangelism?
Does “Go Ye” really mean Go Me (Matt. 28:19–20)? This is

2. significant because some in the church do not believe this
question is applied to Christians today. They believe this
commission has already been fulfilled by the apostles. The word
“go” is the Greek word
poreuthentes
which is a first aorist participle nominative plural of the verb
poreuomai
. The two together mean as you go, while you are going, and is
going. Bauer gives the following significance to these terms:
1. “Literally go, proceed, travel, with the indication of
departing from someone or someplace, Mt 25:41; Lk 4:42.
2. Figurative of going to one’s death, Lk 22:22
3. Conduct oneself, live, and walk such as “the church in all
Judea and Galilee was going on in the fear of the Lord” (Acts
9:31)
4. Of life in general, such as they passed by, Lk 8:14 (Bauer
698–99).
It was understood that disciples were expected to go to
all nations and make disciples (the only imperative in these
verses) as they traveled and went through life in general. It
included their way of life, mission practice, and sometimes may
have meant death. The participle phrase is plural meaning all
disciples and as this is taught to every generation, it means me
and you! Dr. Ivan Stewart in
Go Ye Means Go Me
stated: “This does not eliminate the thought that Christians
should specifically go and teach but does include the fact that as
Christians are going, they should teach” (3). Can you imagine
how many souls would be converted to Christ because of
teaching the gospel everywhere they went in life?

3. Please respond:
You are among these 12 disciples, what action will you take?
What is your reaction to this instruction?
I look forward to reading your response.
CLASSMATE POST 2
Personal teaching/evangelism is the idea that we would (outside
of the assemblies) go out into the community and teach those
outside the body of Christ. We are all to do it every day of our
lives. There is an example shown on the congregational level in
Acts 2:46, where the Bible says they went daily to the temple.
Why would they do that? I submit that there were two purposes
behind it.
#1. They were going there to worship. They had no "meeting
houses" back then, and the Temple was an accessible location
for all of them to meet. So, go to a central location (the
Temple), and you will be able to worship. #2. Personal
Evangelism. The people they would encounter at the Temple
who were not members of the saved would have, at the very
least, believed many of the things the saved did. Therefore, it
would have been a logical progression for any conversation to
easily maneuver toward what they needed to do to be saved.
Our congregations do not see Temples in the same way that in
the first century, but there are still many people in the world
that believe a lot of what the Bible teaches. Would it not be our
mission then to start returning to those types of places and
striking up friendships in the hopes of being able to have
studied with them? But Acts also tells us that they went house
to house. Some suggest they went to their own homes, ate
meals, and worshipped that way. But the church cannot grow if
you do not give opportunities to those without the body. So,
those lost had to have some "house to housing." Or, at the very
least, invitations for those lost to attend the house-to-house

4. meeting, and as a result, the Church [saved] grew daily (Acts
2:47).
Go ye into all the world certainly means for all of the saved.
Jesus gave the imperative of two things. #1 Baptizing them,
which added them to the saved number. #2. Make disciples. You
cannot have disciples if you do not teach. You cannot teach if
you do not go. We would have an issue if the command were
only to the apostles because they are all dead and gone. Also,
Paul (who was an apostle) urged the brethren at Corinth to
imitate him as he sought to imitate Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1).
Jesus' whole mission was to seek and save the lost (Luke
19:10). If our Savior's mission was to go and seek why would
ours not be the same mission?