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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...

and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls” (Matt. 11:29). Two sisters, Mary and Martha, were among Jesus’s closest disciples. We are told that Mary “sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving” (Luke 10:39–40). When Martha complained that Mary was making her do all the work, Jesus replied, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen
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