The Ascension of Jesus is the culmination of promises, pictures, prophecies, and patterns laid out in the Old Testament. What God promised, He is now completing. Matthew 28 gives us three statements showing how Jesus inaugurates and culminates the Kingdom of God. Our primary passage is Matthew 28. In the command to make disciples, the church is engaged in the campaign for world conquest. Our desire is to see how what we are and do as a local church is tied to the past and pushing us into the future.