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    A Challenge to Great Commission Obedience: Motivational Messages for Contemporary Missionaries
    A Challenge to Great Commission Obedience: Motivational Messages for Contemporary Missionaries
    A Challenge to Great Commission Obedience: Motivational Messages for Contemporary Missionaries
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    A Challenge to Great Commission Obedience: Motivational Messages for Contemporary Missionaries

    By Jerry Rankin

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    For the first time, The Challenge to Great Commission Obedience gathers the greatest missionary-inspiring messages from International Mission Board president Jerry Rankin. Originally spoken through the years to men and women heading abroad to do the Lord’s work, these commissioning words stand the test of time and ring true to all believers wherever they are today.With deep conviction, Rankin passionately shares the purpose, the power, and the promise of the Great Commission. Pointing always to Jesus as the light of the world, we are reminded of our blessed call to carry that light everywhere from the Americas to Zimbabwe and all points in between, to everyone in need of a Savior whose love and mercy are everlasting.Every believer hears the call; this enthusiastic book will bring great clarity and understanding to how we proceed in our answering of it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBH Publishing Group
    Release dateNov 15, 2006
    ISBN9781433676673
    A Challenge to Great Commission Obedience: Motivational Messages for Contemporary Missionaries
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    Jerry Rankin

    Jerry Rankin and his wife, Bobbye, spent twenty-three years as missionaries in Asia until he became International Mission Board president in 1993. He now leads the IMB with a vision of missionaries, churches, and volunteers partnering to take the gospel to all people. Rankin earned a bachelor’s degree from Mississippi College and his master of divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The Rankins live in Richmond, Virginia.

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      FULFILLING THE GREAT COMMISSION

      Matthew 28:19–20

      If there is any verse of Scripture a good Southern Baptist knows, next to John 3:16 or the 23rd Psalm, it would be the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19–20. Having completed His earthly ministry and finished His atoning work on the cross, the resurrected Lord gathered His followers on a hillside in Galilee for final instructions prior to ascending to the Father. He said, Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things I have commanded unto you; and, lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

      Although we are familiar with the Great Commission, it is sad that so few Christians feel any responsibility for fulfilling it. Oh, we know this reflects God's desire to evangelize a lost world and extend His kingdom to the ends of the earth, but we tend to just relegate it collectively to our mission programs. Most church members feel they have been obedient by supporting missionaries through the Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, sending someone else to do the work. But you are being appointed because you have taken personally the command of our Lord to disciple the nations. Some of you did not let the familiarity of this passage become a trite cliché; God's Spirit convicted you that it was your responsibility to go. You responded in obedience, and that's why you are here, on your way to a foreign country to make disciples. So I want to remind you of the purpose, the power and the promise of the Great

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