Most every church going Christian knows what the great commission is. At the end of the book of Matthew we read the simple and concise commission Jesus gave to His disciples and in turn all of us as part of the Church. In these first eleven verses in the book of Acts we a wonderful lesson in what exactly that means through a beautiful metaphor. Luke describes the scene of the disciples staring upwards at where they had just seen Jesus go and then being corrected by the two angels to focus rather upon what Jesus has told them to do….the great commission.
In the Church today many are ‘treading water’ or simply keeping the status quo while waiting for Christ’s return. Yet maybe the very reason He has not returned is because we have not been fulfilling this great commission in the way that Jesus intended for us to be fulfilling it….going into the world walking in the power of the Holy Spirit and all that means and proclaiming that today is a day of salvation for all!