Pinedale Student Ministries

Today’s passage
Matthew 28: 18-20

Experience
Hopefully you’ve learned at this point that the greatest gift God has ever given us is life through Jesus Christ. So are you ready for life—real life? I’m talking about life that’s so exciting, so fulfilling, and so full of joy and purpose that you just have to tell others about it. By watching you live this life, other people will experience a hunger for it in their lives. They’ll begin to want what you have.

This life begins with a personal relationship with Jesus. It continues as you choose to live life as God planned it. But there are two things to consider here: First, it isn’t easy; and second, only through the power of Jesus Christ living through you can you live life as God intends.

Jesus personally told His disciples exactly how to bring His message to all people in these last few verses of the gospel of Matthew, referred to as “the Great Commission.” Check out how Dictionary.com defines “commission.” You can see that although there are varying meanings, that word basically means one thing: responsibility. Most of us are content to hold on to what Christ has given us personally, but Jesus’ last physical words are a spread the news! The Good News, that is. The news that Jesus has saved us. We’re commanded (not asked) and assigned to lead others to be followers of Jesus. We’ve been given the greatest job in the world: Representing Jesus to the world and telling others what He can do in their lives. But we’ve been commanded to go a little beyond that.

We can’t just tell people about Jesus, but we are also to be actively involved in helping them learning how to follow Him. God wants to you live a life of excitement, being invested in the spiritual growth of everyone in your sphere of influence. It can be scary, but Jesus leaves us with a comforting promise that we can hold onto—“I will be with you wherever you go and in whatever you do—in both good and bad times.” With a promise like that, what have we got to lose?