But Christ also goes with his disciples into the world as they live, teach, disciple, and baptize under his authority. The ending sentence of the Great Commission says, “and lo I am with you always, even unto the end of the age” (v. 20, my translation). Here Jesus uses the word that signifies the incarnation: with. This same word named Jesus at his birth in Matthew 1:23: Emmanuel, “God with us.” This word summarizes how God will extend the presence of Christ with a people (the disciples) as they