The Great Commission

by C. H. Mackintosh

Publisher:

Loizeaux Brothers

Overview

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.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The fallow ground must be broken up ere the seed is sown; and we may rest assured that, as in the kingdom of nature, so in the kingdom of grace, the ploughing must precede the sowing. The ground must be duly prepared for the seed, else the operation will prove altogether defective.” (Page 8)

“True repentance is the discovery and hearty confession of our utter ruin and guilt. It is the finding out that my whole life has been a lie, and that I myself am a liar.” (Page 13)

“It rather seemed to him that his father was his debtor.” (Page 15)

“But we greatly fear that some of us, in running away from legality on the question of repentance, have fallen into levity. This is a serious error. We may depend upon it that levity is no remedy for legality: were it proposed as such, we should have no hesitation in pronouncing the remedy much worse than the disease. Thank God we have His own sovereign remedy for levity, on the one hand, and legality on the other. ‘Truth,’—insisting upon ‘repentance,’ is the remedy for the former. ‘Grace’—publishing ‘remission of sins,’ is the remedy for the latter. And we cannot but believe that the more profound our repentance, the fuller will be our enjoyment of remission.” (Page 10)

“We are prone to forget it, to the serious damaging of our preaching, and of the souls of our hearers. Some of us are apt to overlook the first part of the commission, in our eagerness, it may be, to get to the second. This is a most serious mistake.” (Page 4)

Praise for the Print Edition

Man’s complete ruin in sin, and God’s perfect remedy in Christ, are fully, clearly, and often strikingly presented [in Mackintosh’s writings].

—Andrew Miller, a leader of the Plymouth Brethren movement

Product Details

• Title: The Great Commission
• Author: C. H. Mackintosh
• Series: C. H. Mackintosh Collection
• Publisher: Loizeaux Brothers Publications
• Pages: 92

About C. H. Mackintosh

Charles Henry MacKintosh was a nineteenth century Christian preacher, dispensationalist, writer of Bible commentaries, magazine editor and member of the Plymouth Brethren.