leaves out a great deal. To begin with, it leaves out the whole rationale for the Commission in the first place. Although it sounds a little corny, a good rule of thumb in reading the Scriptures is that whenever you find a “Therefore,” you need to stop and ask “what it’s there for.” When we see an imperative like “Go therefore,” we need to go back and look at what has already been said leading up to it. There is no reason for us to go into all the world as Christ’s ambassadors apart from the work