Ramsey Creek Baptist Church

What exactly is the “Great Commission” and what does it mean in light of our modern world? Does it apply to us small rural churches? Is it a corporate responsibility, or an individual one? Every first-century church was the direct result of missionaries like Paul, who went out and shared the Gospel, establishing local churches and building relationships with them. Our desire to share the Gospel should be driven by love and concern for the lost and an urgency spurred by the fact that hell is real and the lost will be separated from God for eternity. If the body is healthy within the church, then a part of that is disciple making within the body here. We can’t go out and make disciples and teach unless we can put it into practice here first. The Great Commission starts in the local church. “The whole book of Acts centers around not just individual evangelizing and discipling, but evangelizing and discipling in the context of the local church. The story of the spread of the Gosp