The Great Commission isn't just for preachers, folks!

When Jesus rose from the dead, and had proven Himself to be God in human form, He gave the people who witnessed His ascension one instruction. 

Go forth and spread the Gospel to all corners of the earth, making disciples out of all that you meet.

He did not just tell the apostles to do this. He did not imply that only those who would be teaching should do this. In fact, He did not exclude ANYbody in this.

We are ALL supposed to spread the Gospel and make disciples wherever we go. 

We should ALL become the figurative "Johnny Mustard-seed".

In Ephesians 4:11-13, Paul writes the following:

And He gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers to equip the saints (that's US, folks!) for the work of ministry for building up the body of Christ, until we ALL attain to the unity of faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

The explicit purpose, then, of the "showy" people in the church - the preachers, the teachers, and the other reachers - is NOT to convert the world themselves, but to teach all of US how to convert our very small part of the world. Our "oikos", as my pastor likes to call it, using the Greek word for our social and work community. Thus, in a manner much quicker than were it left to a handful of orators, the entire world will hear the Gospel from people who care about them, and have the opportunity for the Holy Spirit to work within their lives and come to Christ.

We want to help them not only learn the faith, but to reach a mature understanding of Christianity, "so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine" (4:14)  In these Final Days of the End of the Age, there are many false prophets spouting versions of "gospel" that SOUND appealing. Worst of all may be the "prosperity gospel" evangelists, the folks who claim that God wants you to have material wealth and success. There is no place in the New Testament that supports this claim.  If you have any doubt, consider what happened to Christ's disciples - none of them ever attained any kind of wealth or status (except within the Christian church, of course), and all except John were killed horribly by the Romans or the Jews. If they didn't get any "prosperity", why would we? We're already the most prosperous people that ever lived on the planet! 

No, our job is to bring the Truth to all listeners while there is still time - and I've told long time readers before, I don't believe there's more than two years left before the Lord brings His Believers home. He's just waiting for us to finish OUR job: to finish spreading the Word of the Lord to every corner of the earth. 

And there are plenty of people within your sphere of influence AND mine who desperately need our help to get saved before it's too late. "Speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Him Who is the Head, into Christ." (4:15) Speak to those people with love in your heart and in your words. Help them find their way.

The lost people in your oikos are NOT the enemy. The devil that holds them prisoner is the enemy. 

Free the prisoners before the execution. Free them before it's too late.