Letter from the Church Council
The Great Commission: Matthew 28:19,20 “Go”
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Alice asks the Cheshire-Cat, “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” says the Cat.
“I don’t much care where – ” says Alice. “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” says the Cat. We as Jesus’ disciples are given His instruction in the Great Commission which is to all Christians: “Go and make disciples…”. A sad reality in the church today is that few people are obedient to that command of Jesus. They have no burden for souls who are spiritually lost. Or they have a burden in theory, but make no effort to obey and thus, to discharge the burden. They would rather leave it to others. How can you go if you do not much care where? How can you make a disciple if Jesus journey for you makes no sense or doesn’t matter to you? Can you call yourself a Christian if you have no burden for those who perish without the Word?
Jesus spoke of wide and narrow roads in Matthew 7:13-14 “..for wide is the gate and broad is the road to destruction and many enter through it; but small is the gate and narrow the road to eternal life and only a few find it.” Robert Frost wrote, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.”
To be Christian is to have a purpose in your life. To succeed to achieve that purpose, you must prayerfully do the right things each moment, each day in a consistent way. Seek a life of obedience. Get involved in a Christian ministry of this church; join a prayer group, a Bible study, a committee, take on a task, and see how a little action contributes to the growing of your faith and purpose in your life. As grows your faith, so too the willingness to be obedient…even to the Greatest Commission.
– Erwin Kinsey – Council vice-chair