The Great Commission: (Luke 24:44

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The Great Commission is cited as the rationale for much of the church’s work, especially preaching, teaching, evangelism, and baptism. Mackintosh argues that one of Jesus’ most important instructions to his disciples is increasingly taken for granted. How does the church baptize and preach? And what does baptizing and preaching have in common with repenting and believing? The Great Commission...

and grace of God can flow in saving power. The Holy Ghost will make the sinner feel and own his real condition. It is He alone who can do so: but He uses preaching to this end. He brings the word of God to bear on man’s conscience. The Word is His hammer, wherewith He breaks the rock in pieces—His plowshare, wherewith He breaks up the fallow ground. He makes the furrow, and then casts in the incorruptible seed, to germinate and fructify to the glory of God. True, the furrow, how deep soever it may

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