together, just as we do. But for the rest of the week, they would labor together in the fields, fish together on the seas, work in the same shops, and go to war in the same regiment. Their lives were intertwined—and ordered. They had a hierarchy of values, and the centerpiece of their lives was the worship of God. All this affects how we think about the Great Commission. Too often we are too quick to dash off to an evangelistic field that is exciting, fruitful, distant. But how many churches think