The document discusses Jesus' Great Commission in Matthew 28:16-20. It summarizes the commission in three parts: 1) Jesus has all authority, 2) Disciples are commanded to go and make disciples of all nations, 3) Disciples should baptize new believers and teach them to obey all of Jesus' commands. The document emphasizes that disciples should make new disciples by following Jesus' example of investing in a few teachable people and then sending them out to continue the work.

1. The Great Commission

2. The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which
Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they
worshiped him, but some doubted.
(Matthew 28:16–17 ESV)

3. God sends…
• Those who have doubt
• Those who don’t have all the answers
• Those who are unprepared for His calling
• Those who do not have an MDiv from GCU!

4. Theme: Making Disciples

5. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go
therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And
behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
(Matt 28:18–20 ESV)

6. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority

7. Trinitarian Nature of
the Mission of God
The Father sent the Son
The Son sends the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit sends us

8. Chain of Authority
The Father imports authority to Son
Jesus imparted authority to Us

9. Raoul Wallenberg
1912 - 1945
Ambassador of Sweden to Hungary

11. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his
appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be
reconciled to God.
(2 Corinthians 5:20, ESV)

12. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!

13. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!
3. Make Disciples

14. How did Jesus make Disciples?

15. How did Jesus NOT make disciples?
• He did not start a mega-church
• He did not drop lea
fl
ets over Jerusalem, Samaria, and Judaea
• He did not start a radio program (although those are good)
• He did not start a self-help school

16. How Jesus DID make disciples
1. He set a
fi
xed goal of three years
2. He narrowly focused on ONE target group (Jews)
3. He invested in 12 teachable people

17. What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses
entrust to faithful [people], who will be able to teach others also.
(2 Tim 2:2 ESV)

18. Discipleship
Principle

19. Discipleship
Principle

21. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!
3. Make Disciples
4. Of all Ethnos

22. ἔ
θνος - Ethnos
A group of persons united by kinship, culture, and common traditions.
Danker, Frederick. “ἔθνος”, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.

23. Gospel is supposed to cross
cultural and ethnic boundaries

24. Gospel invades a culture
Gospel becomes incarnate in that culture

25. You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and all
Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth.
(Acts 1:8 ESV)

26. Jerusalem
Judea
Samaria
Ends of Earth
Acts 1:8

27. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!
3. Make Disciples
4. Of all Ethnos
5. Baptizing them

28. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!
3. Make Disciples
4. Of all Ethnos
5. Baptizing them
6. Teaching them

29. Do your best to present yourself to God as one
approved, a worker who has no need to be
ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
(2 Tim 2:15 ESV)

30. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!
3. Make Disciples
4. Of all Ethnos
5. Baptizing them
6. Teaching them
7. Sending them

31. Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
(Matt. 28:19 ESV)

32. How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed?
And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never
heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
And how are they to preach unless they are sent?
(Rom 10:14–15 ESV)
Part of the Mission of God is recruiting and training God’s people

33. The Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20)
1. All authority
2. Go!
3. Make Disciples
4. Of all Ethnos
5. Baptizing them
6. Teaching them
7. Sending them
8. I am with you always…

34. Trinitarian Nature of Missio Dei
• Father sends the Son
• The Son sends the Holy Spirit
• The Holy Spirit sends us

35. Empowered by the Holy Spirit
• The HS empowers to preach the gospel
• The HS empowers the gospel message
• The HS reveals Jesus to the hearers of the gospel