The command in the Great Commission to “make disciples”means to teach or train people to follow and obey Christ.. The “Great Commission” in History

• The Gospel of Matthew does not specifically use such a term. In fact, the phrase “Great Commission” does not appear until late in Christian history.


• The term is attributed to Baron Justinian von Welz, a 17th-century Lutheran nobleman


• Two centuries later, the Englishman Hudson Taylor is believed to have used the idea of the Great Commission to justify Christian missionary efforts, particularly the China Inland Mission that he founded in 1866.

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