{"id":67363,"date":"2023-11-20T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T17:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=67363"},"modified":"2023-11-20T11:11:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T17:11:25","slug":"the-great-commission-is-bigger-than-your-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=67363","title":{"rendered":"The Great Commission Is Bigger Than Your Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Great Commission is bigger than your local church. How should that shape your priorities and posture as a pastor?<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:225,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Jesus commanded his disciples to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Trinity, and teaching them to obey everything he commanded (Matt.\u202f28:19). And he promised to be with them to the end of the age (Matt.\u202f28:20). This charge is global in scope. Therefore, the Great Commission necessarily involves more than one local church.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:225,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">After all, a church in Uganda can\u2019t do much to make disciples of native Argentineans. Of course, they can send missionaries to Argentina, but then those missionaries will evangelize, disciple, plant a church, and the whole process starts over.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:225,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Because each of our churches is engaged in a mission that is bigger than any of them, we should proactively partner with other churches in order to fulfill it. Many churches\u2019 denominational ties aim at this kind of partnership. But I\u2019d like to suggest that the Great Commission should form in us, and in pastors in particular, a more pervasive posture of partnering with other churches to fulfill the Great Commission.<span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:225,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In other words,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Commission is bigger than your local church. How should that shape your priorities and posture as a pastor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-67363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-evangelism-gospel","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67365,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67363\/revisions\/67365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}