Author: Tim Challies

This week the blog is sponsored by The Master’s Academy International. They invite you to join them for an important week of prayer beginning July 22. Our Lord’s Final Command The final command our Lord Jesus gave to all who would follow Him was the command known as the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19–20). The Great Commission is commonly referred to as the missionary’s mandate, but, in fact, the Great Commission is a command for each and every Christian. Certainly, not all Christians will be called to overseas missions, but all are called to obey the call to, “Go… and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to keep all that I commanded you.” The question for us as Christians, then, is in light of this truth, how should our lives be transformed by it? How does this affect our time, our priorities, our actions, and our hearts? Fulfilling the Great Commission The Master’s Academy International (TMAI) exists for this very purpose: that all nations would hear the name of Christ, and that many would come to seek, love, and serve Him. Our ministry works to train indigenous church leaders to be approved pastor-teachers, able to equip their local churches to make biblically sound disciples. Since our founding, there have been over 7,000 students who have graduated and been sent into ministry throughout the world. Currently, there are nineteen TMAI Training Centers equipping men in North, Central, and South America,…See AlsoWhat is a Disciple?A La Carte (January 17)The Christian College And The Great Commission