The mission of the church is to make disciples.
That’s basically what Greg Gilbert and I take 250 pages to say in What Is the Mission of the Church?
We believe our answer to the question is clear from the Great
Commission, from the record of the early church in Acts, from Paul’s own
missionary example, and from piecing together theological themes like
Kingdom and shalom. God sends the church into the world to bear witness
to Jesus Christ, win people to Christ, build them up in Christ, and
establish them in Christian churches.
There are any number of reasons why someone might not agree with our
thesis or like our book. But at the level of gut-reaction I think many
people are uncomfortable saying the mission of the church is to make
disciples because they feel like this makes most of our lives for most
of us rather irrelevant. “I want all of life to matter to God” is what I often hear. Most
Christians, especially young ones with a lot of life and a lot of
dreams in front of them, want to do something that really counts. They
want to know that teaching botany or being a vet or running an ad agency
isn’t a distraction from what really matters in life. Keep Reading >>>
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