The Great Commission

What if the moments of doubt we carry into church are not disqualifiers but actually part of the story God is telling through us? That is one of the striking truths tucked inside Matthew 28, where we find that when Jesus delivered the Great Commission, some of those present worshiped and some doubted. He did not separate the two groups. He spoke to all of them. This detail, so easy to skip past on the way to the familiar command to go and make disciples, reframes everything. The Great Commission was never reserved for the spiritually polished or the theologically certain. It was given to a mixed, imperfect, sometimes-doubting community of ordinary people, and that means it belongs to us too. The message draws us into the full weight of what Jesus declared in Matthew 28, verses 17 through 20, where his claim of all authority over heaven and earth becomes the foundation for the call to go. That word all is not watered down. It is absolute. And because his authority is without limit or exception, our limitations do not disqualify us from the mission. Our doubts, our failures, our seasons of spiritual dryness, all of it falls under the canopy of his complete authority. This is not a call extended only when conditions are ideal. It is a call extended now, to us, exactly as we are.