Matthew 28:19-20
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.
When everything inside of us tell us to stay. It is safer
here. It’s comfortable. When our first instinct, our natural instinct is to
stay… but Jesus has already said, “Go.”
I am not telling you to pack up all of your belongings and
move across the country. Or to a different country. Well, unless God has spoken
this over your life. I do not think this is what Jesus meant when He said “go
and make disciples…” I think it’s a “go outside of your four walls” sort of
thing. Go to where the broken are and speak restoration. Go to the hungry and
feed them. Go to that single mom you know and watch her kids for an evening. Go
to the weary worn out depleted soul and make them a meal and then listen to
everything they have to say. And then tell all of them, every single last one
of them, about Jesus.
Because this, THIS is what the church looks like. When
you’re too busy being at the church to actually be the church in someone’s
life? Well then, there is certainly an issue at hand that needs resolving. And
let me tell you, it will be uncomfortable. Unlike the physical four walls of a
church, there are no boundaries here. In this world, there are no rules and it
is full of unsafe and unfriendlies. It will be tiring and
costly. It will hurt like hell. But I would rather hurt like it then see a
bunch of people I know end up there. So go BE the church and stop hiding behind
it.
Jesus, let everything you taught the disciples sink deep
into our hearts. Open our eyes to the lost and make us brave, so we can go out
and find them. In Your Name. For Your Glory.
