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The Gospel Commission: Recovering God’s Strategy for Making Disciples is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many programs for outreach, discipleship, and spiritual discipline are available at any bookstore and on countless websites. We assume that we already know the nature of the Great Commission and the appropriate methods of carrying it out. But Michael Horton contends that it too often becomes our mission instead of God’s. At a time when churches are zealously engaged in writing up mission...

According to numerous studies, most Americans consider themselves “spiritual, but not religious.” In other words, they dabble in whatever beliefs and practices they find intuitively valid and useful for daily living, but they resist any threat to their individual autonomy. They are willing to be consumers in the spiritual marketplace, but not disciples of Jesus Christ. However, Jesus warns, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven,
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