The Hard Part

Getting something started is the hard part. Several things contribute to how true that is: what all it affects, how much it takes and how long, what resources can contribute to its progress, and how important its goals are in general.

Getting Christianity started was certainly no exception. The Lord’s Great Commission touches on several of those factors:

“Go make disciples in every country [its scope]. Baptize them into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit [people’s very identity]; and teach [means] them to observe everything I’ve commanded you [personal behavior]. I’ll always be with you [resource] till the end of the age [length of endeavor]” (Matthew 28:18-22).

In keeping with the importance of its mission, the Christian enterprise involved the Founrder’s giving his very life voluntarily. In this communion service we commemorate that central feature of Messiah’s founding of his “kingdom” and we join its cause, relying merely on the same means that initiated it: influence rather than force or financial backing, influence through our own transformed lives that teach and demonstrate .