Our Only Job

My heart is consumed by the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Matthew 28:18-20) I know that I must sound like a broken record or a skipping CD to many of you, but I can’t help it. I do not want to help it. I believe that all believers have one job. We are to make disciples. Yes, we have many responsibilities at home, and at church, and at work, but we have only one job. We must get that into our hearts and minds, because Jesus will require an accounting of how we did when we stand before Him one day.

Our Associate Pastor, Casey Matthews, and I attended a “Revival of Evangelism” meeting at the Georgia Baptist Convention Building on Thursday. It was led by Evangelist, Bailey Smith, who is a wonderful soul winner and preacher. He admonished us all to remember Hell. Hell is real. Every person who dies without trusting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior spends eternity in terrible punishment for their sins. Jesus’ blood and sacrificial death is the only payment for those sins, and knowing Him is the only way to have our sins forgiven. Therefore, it is imperative that we all make disciples of all people groups everywhere.

It is not rocket science. If you have been saved, you can tell someone else how to be saved. Then, you can admonish them to do the same thing. Matthew 28:18-20 is not only the Great Commission, but it is also the only way to reach the whole world with the gospel. Read it carefully. We are all commanded to make disciples of Jesus, and then to teach them to make disciples who make more disciples of all peoples, so that we multiply disciples faster than the population multiplies. It is a very workable plan, but it only works, if we work at making disciples. How about you?

Tomorrow, I intend to read Mark 2-4.