We said in Part 1 that the Church is only concerned with God’s values and that these values are explicitly set forth in the pages of Scripture.  So what does God value?  Well, Genesis 1 declares that God created man in His image to commune with/depend on/find complete joy in Him alone, proving that He values His relationship with His creation.  This is destroyed because of man’s sin in Genesis 3.  Jesus, then speaking after his atoning death, burial, and resurrection, gives God’s Mission for his Church in Matthew 28:19-20 – Make disciples by baptizing them and teaching them to observe Christ’s commandments to us.  This idea is perpetuated in Acts – the disciple-making will span the entire globe through the establishment of the local Church.  The Mission of God, as set forth by Jesus, is for those given to him by the Father, to obtain eternal life through faith and subsequently being fully known and intimately acquainted with the Father, and His son, Jesus (Jn 17:1-3).

Our Mission, therefore, is simple: make disciples who know God, and Jesus, intimately and deeply, through the abiding of His word upon the heart, which in turn leads them to bear fruit – making other disciples.  If the church is to value what God and Jesus values, then they are to produce disciples who are infatuated with the word of God, and love them to the very core of their being.

Are you truly making biblical disciples who are making more disciples?  If the Mission of God isn’t moving forward in your ministry, what is keeping it from doing so?