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The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship is unavailable, but you can change that!

The last command Jesus gave the church before he ascended to heaven was the Great Commission, the call for Christians to "make disciples of all the nations." But Christians have responded by making "Christians," not "disciples." This, according to brilliant scholar and renowned Christian thinker Dallas Willard, has been the church's Great Omission. "The word disciple occurs 269 times in the...

Christ is perpetual moral revolution, until the purpose of humanity on earth is completed. This vision of the meaning of world history is explained in detail in the general introduction to the Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible (2005). As disciples of Jesus, we today are a part of God’s world project. But realization of that project, it must never be forgotten, is the effect, not the life itself. The mission naturally flows from the life. It is not an afterthought, or something we might overlook
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