Background research: author, audience, occasion, genre, date
The Great commission lies in the book of Mathew chapter 28 verses 18-20. Mathew as the author of this book has described that it is the command for disciples to teach peach his commands. Mathew puts more emphasis on the fact that people should be the commands of Christ. He therefore emphasized on the fact that disciples were commanded to create other disciples. Apart from creating other disciples the author also emphasized on evangelism. The main theme is to spread the gospel to non-believers in order to impart the virtues of Christ on them.
The audience of the great commission was the disciples who were taught the gospel in order to spread the goods to the unbelievers. This good news was meant to be spread to non-believers as the bread of life.
The setting of Great commissioning is situated at the mountain which is unnamed at Galilee and this has led to the coming up of many connotations related to it. Mathew never gave much emphasis on the location of the mountain where the great commission occurred in Galilee. Many theories around the great commissioning proposed Mount Olives since it was the only mountain that was mentioned by Mathew.
The Great commission was a form of gospel where the disciples emphasized on the good news and the essence of the disciples spreading it to the many unbelievers in order to impart the virtues of Christ on them. Mathew has reflected a lot from the mosaic laws in elaborating the great commission.
This Great commission also entailed the temptations that Jesus that Jesus was subjected to by Satan. This showed that the authority and need to be worshiped on earth. This also helps to bring out the relation between Christ and God. Parallelism has been clearly brought between the mosaic laws and the current gospel which is being propagated by the great commissioning. The command of Jesus was mainly meant to spread the gospel to many un believers in order to ensure that the good news reach to many as well as imparting the virtues of Christ on the believers. The disciples are therefore meant to teach the commands of Christ and the pass the response to Jesus.
This great commission therefore reflects the spread of the gospel of Christ which impacts positively on the unbelievers making them to accept the good virtues of Christ. This great commission acts as a lesson or theme of good news to the people in the society since it was related to the mosaic laws.
Inductive Bible study: Observation, Interpretation, Application
Inductive dibble study involves the study and the analysis of the bible in broad sense for instance conducting the research by extended reading of the bible , the observations made point out that the essence of the study is to prove the bible acclamation about Jesus in the religious perception Christians believe in the living God and read the bible , the services they derive in the bible explains the kind of the morals the Christians abide by the morals of the church , different versions the bible depict the gods ‘ word it is normally a reliable sourced of knowing the word.
Need to first go through the book you are studying if you do not know or new in the method, basically beginning on the book of John. Then go through slowly the chapters slowly. , for the people who believe they need to pray in order for the Holy Spirit to guide them through the reading. The use of modern translation is advisable since they are a variety, NASB, NIV, among others a translation of two more book to be down in order to bring pout the comparison of the books and the recommended readings.
you make your short notes on note book by dividing the page maybe in three different columns for example the observation column , the interpretations and the application of the information collected in during the study . , this way it will help you out it bringing the facts out well and telling it later in a forum or a workshop this will help in remembering the important points since you can refer to the written information.
However the study is directed towards the individual study in the functionality of the group setting. Questions need not to be answered all of them , the further research on the question of ensuring a greater development of the skills do not let the questions of the study to suffice , to ask the relevant information to ask the important follow up questions which will help understand the essence of the study of the n bible. There are many ways of doing the inductive good guides present the intervarsity press this help on the way one will have the way to get the other person’s perspective and point of view there are questions that need to be followed in ensuring that a sound kind of study is taken for example ., when., how , what. Which? In the study is taken into consideration in doing so the bible studies in the genre of the New Testament and Old Testament.
In making interpretations about the study shows the basis of the stories and religious beliefs and the practice of Christianity this has reformed many people to take moral behavior, measures of the religion to make it into practice. The analysis given is used in the explanation of the religious practices as explained in philosophical terms and application that enhances the study in practice. The bible to be considered a holy book is due to its contents that hold spiritual believes and practices.
Not biblical: not found in Scripture or anti-Bible?
The textual critics of the Great Commission argue that the portion of Mark 16 has been manipulated and is not found in the original manuscripts for instance, the Greek manuscripts on the New Testament, Codex Sinaiticus among others. They say that according to these scriptures, Jesus never spoke with disciples after resurrection. They further claim that Gospel according to Mark ends at the point where the two women leaves the tomb. These critics questions as to why Baptism found in the book of Mark is only the name of Jesus as oppose d to other forms of Baptisms that the three beings of trinity that is father, son and the Holy spirit. Furthermore, they ask why Eusabius in his commission only refer to Jesus and omit the triadic phrase.
According to the inquiry of legitimacy, there is no motivation to accept that the expression was ever planned as a recipe as in each statement must be rehashed precisely as it is expressed here. 50 Jesus orders that submersions be performed on those who grasp the extraordinary relationship delighted in by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Some have reasoned that there was a more senior Greek message that utilized the expression "within my name" as a substitute for the triadic expression built basically in light of the proof from Usebius. That content is presently lost according to the bible. 51 Eusebius cites Matthew 28:19 twenty one times. Sixteen times he cites Jesus as adage "in my name," and five times he utilizes the expressions discovered within the gained text. 52 There are shortcomings with the view that the content basically said "in my name," on the other hand. In the first place, Eusebius is not reliable or correct in the route in which he cites the New Testament. Second, there is no other patristic source which supports Eusebius' perusing. 53 Most essentially, there are no Greek compositions that verify the phrase "in my name." The undoubtedly conclusion, then, is that the gained content is unique and original.
Descriptive vs. Prescriptive
In addition to this, this continuous repetition of the command of the great commission is essential to a Christian especially after it being emphasized in the book of acts. The main reason for its emphasized is because the gospel according to the great commission is that it was never preached to every gentile on earth, in that it has quoted that it was never preached to every nation on earth by the end of the apostolic era. According to this text there was still a lot work that needed to be done therefore there is disconnect of this command in different era thus it was never fulfilled. Saying that a great part of this commandment is descriptive is not true, because the biggest question is what is the reason for baptizing Christians and teaching Christians about what Christ taught about what Jesus taught about baptism? Therefore this is a prescriptive command.
Thirdly, Christians today are the outcome of this great commission command despite us not being the original audience that this command was intended to. This is because if the early Christians did not follow it Christians of today would not be following the same commandment today. Christians are expected to preach to other about the great commission that Christ taught in the bible era. This Christ came to teach us (Mathew 28: 18-20).
Right, Wrong, or Different
The main problem is the means by which one accepts Jesus thought about his association with the Father and the Spirit and whether one accepts that Matthew exactly identifies what Jesus said about that relationship. Provided that one accepts for whatever excuse for why that Jesus did not accept he got a charge out of a novel association with the Father from interminability and that such cases are owed to the early Christians or the evangelists, then denial of this segment of the Great Commission will be logically correct.
On the other hand, if one concludes and believes that Jesus knew himself to be unique and related to both the father and the Holy Spirit then the evangelists made the correct interpretation in this issue and there is a good reason for that which formed the basis of doctrine of Trinity. Mathew had a strong believe that Jesus’ association with the father was crucial to the mission.
The passage of the Great Commission is thus, Christomological and missionological. Those who accept Matthew was either off, misguided, or fidgety to put expressions in Jesus' mouth to support later ministerial convictions and practices are proposing that much of both Christian precept and history is dependent upon a horrible distortion of what Jesus really said. The devotees are dispatched to instruct the new trains to keep what Jesus ordered. It is Jesus' own particular instructing, not the Torah, that is the substance of what is to be instructed. All through Matthew the stress has been on Jesus as the teacher.
In conclusion, the gospel of Jesus is for the whole world with no limits. God also gave Jesus the universal power and he has passed the same to his followers. The Great Commission therefore involves the whole gospel for the whole world.
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