A GRANDE COMISSÃO! E Agora?

THE GREAT COMMISSION! And now? If the Cultural Mandate answers the question “why was man created in the world?”, the Great Commission answers the question “how does the redeemed people participate in God’s mission in the fallen world, under the lordship of the resurrected Christ?”. The Great Commission does not arise as a post-resurrection improvisation; it is the revelation of what “was written”. The Great Commission does not replace God’s mission in the Old Testament; but it brings it to its Christological climax. The final mandates are not merely instructions to send individuals; they define the identity and role of the new covenant community in retentive history. The Great Commission was not given exclusively to the disciples, but primarily to the disciples, but it did not end with their death. As Lord of the church, Jesus expects his followers to carry it out to the ends of the earth. This means that the Great Commission is not a word to the unformed multitude, but a word to those who have already gone through the process of being formed by discipleship. In all accounts, the pattern is not “Jesus spoke to the people in general,” but “Jesus spoke to his own.” The mission begins in Christ and not in the church. The church does not have its own mission; it participates in the mission of the exalted Christ. The Christological foundation of the Great Commission. Matthew 28 does not begin with “go,” but with “all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.” Because the Great Commission is not founded first on human need, nor on the sociological urgency of the world, nor even on the zeal of the church. It is founded on the universal authority of Christ. Complementary teaching material on the Legado de Estudos Online platform. www.plataformalegado.com