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The Great Commission: (Luke 24:44–49) is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

hair from these without serious damage to our testimony, and to the souls of our hearers. If we fail to preach repentance, we are “keeping back” something “profitable.” What should we say to a husbandman, if we saw him scattering his precious grain along the beaten highway? We should justly pronounce him out of his mind. The ploughshare must do its work. The fallow ground must be broken up ere the seed is sown; and we may rest assured that, as in the kingdom of nature, so in the kingdom of grace,
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