THURSDAY New Year’s Eve
Matthew 28:16-20 Go and Tell
God gave Jesus authority over heaven and earth. On the basis of that authority, Jesus told his disciples to make more disciples as they preached, baptized, and taught. With this same authority, Jesus still commands us to tell others the Good News and make them disciples for the Kingdom. We are to go—whether it is next door or to another country—and make disciples. It is not an option, but a command to all who call Jesus “Lord.”
Lesson: We are not all evangelists in the formal sense, but we have all received gifts that we can use to help fulfill the great commission.