The Great Commission

The Great Commission is cited as the rationale for much of the church’s work, especially preaching, teaching, evangelism, and baptism. Mackintosh argues that one of Jesus’ most important instructions to his disciples is increasingly taken for granted. How does the church baptize and preach? And what does baptizing and preaching have in common with repenting and believing? The Great Commission calls us to reexamine our presumptions about the Great Commission and rediscover the importance of Jesus’ words and the urgency of the task.