Great Commission

concept · 14 episodes

243From Saul to Paul 31 Aug 2026 44:43¶ 137 “Yes. But two things that struck me in his account. We’re in the 1630s to 1650s, and how little the Church understood the need…” 45:42¶ 138 “It took about a generation or so for Christians actually to realize that there are people out there who don’t look like us, don’t…”

232The Ascension, Authority, and Acts 22 Dec 2025 11:00¶ 42 “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost…” 11:20¶ 43 “So to the apostles as the representatives of the visible Church he is saying, “Go teach. Baptize people. Then teach them some more so…” 6:25¶ 26 “The “Go ye” is not a command. It’s a participle. We would probably render it more accurately as, “As you are going, therefore…” The…”

231The Completion of the Gospel 8 Dec 2025 21:29¶ 63 “Sometimes I get the complaint, “Yeah, the Old Testament says that.” “Okay, great. Let’s turn to the New Testament. Nations – let’s look at…” 23:02¶ 67 “How better to undo the Great Commission. Well, you can convince people that Jesus doesn’t have all power, or you can convince them there…” 23:53¶ 70 “There’s that frightening note of lessening the scope of the Great Commission and the Church’s job by simply defining nations out of existence. “Well,…”

174In the Beginning... Again 4 Jan 2024 45:00¶ 150 “And so is there a conflict between the dominion mandate and the Great Commission? No, they need each other. We’re making disciples, not just…” 40:15¶ 136 “And the earth, what is its function? Well, God likes the earth. He made it. The emphasis on the dominion mandate actually came originally…”

141Swords Into Ploughshares 24 Oct 2022 29:21¶ 106 “Then we came to eschatology, and I have gained enough wisdom to not say, “Which position do you take?” In fact I said, “I’m…” 29:49¶ 107 “Okay, good for me. That’s all I want to know.” When we stop believing that, we start finding excuses not to do that.” 30:00¶ 108 “Now, you could say, “We should be better than that. We should do it because God commands it.” Yeah, we should, but when we’re…”

133Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 5) - By What Other Standard? 29 Aug 2022 19:34¶ 50 “He told them, “Go, tell them what I said, and place them under a covenant bond, a baptism, a commission. Make disciples, baptizing them,…” 20:56¶ 55 “Yeah, so this is it, and honestly as we’ve had these discussions over the last few weeks this has become a lot clearer for…” 21:20¶ 56 “Once you understand that baptism is a covenant sign and that’s what Jesus commanded us to do, not as an afterthought, not as, “Oh,…”

129Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 2) - Dispensationalism v. Covenant Theology 1 Aug 2022 39:35¶ 118 “There was this thing called the Great Commission that was not the Great Suggestion, and we need to take that seriously. As we look…” 39:56¶ 119 “Again, this is covenantal. We are to teach them and we’re to baptize them and thus incorporate them into the body of Christ, and…” 3:01¶ 8 “Now, not every Christian in every age actually believed the Great Commission would be fulfilled, but it was kind of in the background of…”

128Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 1) 25 Jul 2022 20:58¶ 58 “Notice what’s in here. We have an absolute sovereignty or power or lordship. We have a representation in terms of this authority being applied.…” 21:47¶ 60 “There’s continuity. In other words, here is a 5-point covenant outline that Jesus set forth as his plan for evangelizing and discipling the nations,…” 22:29¶ 61 “So here’s the obvious up-front answer of the gospel under Jesus himself, as to what his relationship with the nations is. He does claim…”

99Hannah 3 Jan 2022 26:39¶ 104 “Recently we – as an elder at our church - were interviewing a man to see if he would be fit to teach in…” 27:02¶ 105 “He stopped and looked at me (we were doing Zoom) and he hesitated, because he knew exactly what I was asking, which meant he…” 27:31¶ 107 “Will all nations be made Jesus’ disciples or not? Did Jesus give us a job that he never expected us to complete? And thus…”

79The Promised Land 16 Aug 2021 26:43¶ 92 “It is easy, and the Church has sometimes done this, to say, “Well, the Promised Land is heaven, so yeah, he gets heaven.” No,…” 24:42¶ 85 “Why was Abraham willing to wait? Why did he not expect everything right away? He wanted to see the world saved. He wanted the…”

76The Theology of the Conquest 26 Jul 2021 27:52¶ 90 “So this is our new Great Commission, and the Great Commission is the New Testament corollary of what Joshua was commanded. Joshua, whose name…” 27:19¶ 89 “The Old Testament regularly speaks in terms of the Messiah’s kingdom in terms of slaying his enemies. But when we get to the New…” 39:49¶ 135 “If we’re going to stand with Joshua, we not only say, “Yeah, Joshua, you were right to kill these people,” but we have to…”

60Facing Giants 21 Feb 2021 11:59¶ 28 “These are all things that I’ve seen in writing from competent-enough theologians over the last 70 years, some of them more recent, over against…” 16:48¶ 41 “So yes, there are giants, and yes, we can be fearful, but it flies in the face of 1) Jesus’ commandment, and then 2)…” 34:44¶ 99 “The one representation, such as it was, of the gospel was the very worldview that had no cultural optimism, no historical inevitability of victory,…”

19He Looked For a City 10 May 2020 25:11¶ 92 “Rather than trying to defend this, let’s just start. Jesus said do this before he left in his parting instructions to his guys, to…” 26:58¶ 97 “But when we come to Christ’s ascension and to the Great Commission, we have very specific instructions. “Here is a message. It’s as old…” 27:19¶ 98 “So we should not see any conflict between this idea of establishing a godly community and what God will actually finish creating. The fact…”

9Dominion 1 Mar 2020 4:22¶ 11 “This is not to dismiss the wonderful work that writers in all kinds of traditions have contributed to this discussion, but I think it…” 5:00¶ 12 “Sin has crippled any direct fulfillment of the dominion mandate, and the emphasis of the Great Commission will lead us back there almost naturally…” 5:23¶ 13 “That’s what I’d like to talk about, this idea of not simply coming to Christ and trusting in Christ and being born again, as…”