Get Going
Influencing People Around the Corner and Around the World to Follow Jesus
Influencing people around the corner and around the world to follow Jesus is at the heart of “Get Going.”
The final words Jesus spoke to his followers were perhaps the most important; “Go and make disciples of all nations...” (Matthew 28:18-20) His clear mandate to the church then and now is “go.” He never said “go to church” he told the church to “Go.”
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18-20)
His mandate is our mission, compelling us to do the work of service...the work of ministry -- the kind that requires both hands. With one hand we serve within the local church, putting our individual gifts to work to benefit the the community of believers Jesus calls family. With the other hand we reach out compassionately serving people around the corner and around the world, mindfully engaged in outreach not as an event, but a lifestyle of influencing people to follow Jesus. (alternate wording “...but a lifestyle of becoming all things to all people that we might win as many as possible.”)
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” (Isaiah 6:8) Send me is the heart cry of every believer who wants to get going.
Get Going by serving on a team today.