The Gospel Commission Recovering God's Strategy for Making Disciples

Whose kingdom are we building? God's? Or our own?

Many churches in America today want to be powerful, relevant, and influential in personal and social transformation. A plethora of programs for outreach, discipleship, and spiritual disciplines are available at any bookstore and on countless websites. Yet what we need most is a renewed understanding of and commitment to the Great Commission.

At a time when churches are zealously engaged in creating mission statements and strategic plans, Michael Horton argues that we must ask ourselves anew whether we are ambassadors following the script we've been given, or building our own kingdoms with our own blueprint.

Pastors and church leaders will value this frank and hopeful next-step exploration of the Great Commission as a call to renewed understanding and good practice.

Publisher: Baker
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780801013904

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Michael Horton (PhD, University of Coventry and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford) is J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California. He hosts The White Horse Inn radio broadcast and is editor-in-chief of Modern...

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This book clearly and succinctly discusses the various "extra-biblical" belief systems that claim to be Christian, and does so with an honest approach using scripture and orthodoxy as its sole authority. Every pastor, Christian worker, and layperson remotely interested in knowing what the problems might be with current doctrinal views should read this book. It is not only a good book to read, but I will be referring to it often as I discuss doctrinal issues with my fellow believers, many of whom are so uninformed, or ill informed, about the current unorthodox teachings and movements in post-modern churches. Jim Groff