Matthew 28:16-20

“Pentecost Sunday!”

Week 1 = UP (Worship; Trust Christ; Prayer and Praise)

Week 2 = IN (Relational Discipleship; Teach to Observe)

Week 3 = OUT (Missions; Pentecost; Serve Day)

Week 4 = Enduring Together (Lord’s Supper)

1. An Acts 1:8 Strategy

-Empowered/Sent by the Spirit (saves, gifts, sanctifies, sends)

-You will be witnesses, not salespeople (proclaim and display)

-Expansive, boundary-crossing vision

2. With Matthew 28:18-20 Purposes

-Go = Be Intentional and Urgent

(not Manipulative and Panicked)

-Make Disciples = Baptizing and Teaching to Observe

-All Nations = “The Great Commission is the most anti-racist phrase in the Bible.” - Nik Ripken

3. For a Revelation 7:9-10 Goal

***Neighborhoods and Nations

“Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship does not. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever. So worship is the fuel and goal of missions.” - John Piper

What about now?

• Trust in Jesus - Pray for Forgiveness; Be Baptized; Grow in Faith

• Live Intentionally and Urgently

• Love Your Neighbors, Embrace the Nations

• Open Doors for others if you can’t “go” as much as you want

• Transformative Summer - Pray, Give, Go