Last Friday we began a brief look into the command Christ gave to His church, as recorded in Matthew 28:18-20, the command that has come to be known as “the Great Commission.” We discovered that, far ...

Every Christian is called to be a missionary, sharing the good news of salvation in Christ and making disciples for him, not for oneself or one's clique of like-minded believers, Pope Francis said.

In my most recent post I observed that many congregations and followers of Jesus are failing to pursue Jesus’ Great Commission, to “go and make disciples…teaching them to observe all that I have ...

Introducing the magazine’s new five-year teaching venture. Ongoing controversies over the nature of the Atonement (substitutionary or Christus Victor?), the historical Adam (creation or evolution?), ...

The World Evangelical Alliance concluded its morning program on the fourth and final day of the 2025 General Assembly with a compelling call for a global return to family-centered disciple-making.

We’ve heard the Great Commission many times. We may even be able to recite these words of Jesus. But do we believe them? By that, I mean, “Do we seek to obey Christ’s command in the Great Commission?

True Christians have God’s loving vision in their mind and attitude, and the Wonderfully Weird Command, Make Disciples, turns it into reality. Speaking with Christians, they would say they understand ...

A friend reports the story of a woman, widowed from a Catholic husband with two small children. Honoring her pledge to raise her children as Catholics, she inquired whether she too might become a ...

Biblical storytelling conveys the realities of our faith better than almost any other form of communication. We called it confirmation class when I was young, and under the methods of the previous ...

Indigenous women attend Pope Francis' celebration of a Mass marking World Mission Day in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 20, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Every Christian ...