A fictitious story is told that Jesus returned to heaven after His ascension and was met there by the Angel Gabriel. Gabriel asked Jesus saying, “Master does the whole world know that You died for them?” Jesus answered, “No, only a few in Palestine know about it.” Then Gabriel asked, “So what is your plan to tell the whole world that You died for them?” Jesus answered, “I asked Peter, James, John, and a few others to make it the business of their lives to tell others and the ones they told were to tell others and finally the whole world can be reached with the gospel.”
Then Gabriel replied, “But suppose Peter fails, and John does not tell anyone and what if James and Andrew are afraid, then what?” Then Jesus said, “Well, I have no other plan I’m counting entirely on them.”
Do you realize that God still has no other plan; He is counting entirely on us to reach this world. In fact God has always depended upon His people to reach this world?
It was to the church that Jesus said “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). Do you realize that this great co-mission to take the gospel to ‘every creature’ was not given to a select group of spiritual commandos but it was given to the church-it was given to us? It was to the church that Jesus said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19).
In other words we all are to have a part in ‘making disciples of all nations.’ Jesus never commanded “the whole world to come to the church but He did command the church to go to the whole world.”
Dear Family and Friends,
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