於2013-01-10發佈

大使命

我們正來到基督教新紀元的開端;真正使徒性的基督教正在地上被恢復,此會帶來基督行走在地上以來最大的彰顯。  

在主升天前,祂對門徒最後與最大的指示便是完成『大使命』。基督教最大的失敗就是致力於帶人信主,卻沒有帶出門徒,因而產生了膚淺的基督徒與膚淺的基督教。此即將改變,大使命即將要實現。

我們可以花一整年的時間,單單探究大使命第一句話的深度,為此花一年的時間相當值得。就算我們用一整年的時間來看大使命,都無法涵蓋整個信息。神所賜下的啟示的靈,將幫助我們來看神的深度與其目的。藉此,我們將看見對祂更多更深認識的渴慕增加了。所以,我們今年將專注在更深瞭解大使命,尋求行在其中,並盡我們的責任幫助基督的身體完成此命令。讓我們先從閱讀開始:

天上地下所有的權柄都賜給我了。
所以,你們要去,使萬民作我的門徒,奉父、子、聖靈的名給他們施洗。 
凡我所吩咐你們的,都教訓他們遵守,我就常與你們同在,直到世界的末了。』    (參考馬太福音 28:18-20).

當基督的身體開始恢復此基本命令,就會興起並長大成熟,成為它所蒙召的樣式。那樣的日子現在即將來到。

大使命聚焦並環繞我們在基督裡最大的目的;首先我們必須成為祂的門徒。門徒就是學生,但在聖經時代,門徒的意義遠大過於學生。門徒活著就是為要認識他們的夫子,並像他們的夫子一樣。基督的門徒活著就是為要認識祂,像祂一樣,做祂曾做過的事,正如祂所吩咐我們的。直到我們這樣做,否則我們便不算長大成熟。不管我們的基督徒生命有多膚淺,只要我們尋求行在最高的目的中,此現在就會改變,也將會改變。

 (摘自喬納 word for the week, Week 1, 2013)


The Great Commission
Week 1, 2013 
Rick Joyner 

We are in the times of the beginning of a new epoch for Christianity. True apostolic Christianity is being restored to the earth. This will result in nothing less than the greatest manifestation of Christ on the earth since He Himself walked the earth.

The last and greatest charge that the Lord gave to His disciples before His ascension was to fulfill “The Great Commission.” The single greatest failure of Christianity has been a devotion to making converts instead of making disciples. This has led to superficial Christians and superficial Christianity. This is about to change, and The Great Commission is about to be fulfilled.  

We could easily spend all year exploring the depths of understanding in just the first sentence of The Great Commission, and it would be a year well spent. We will spend the whole year on the entire commission, and we will not come close to exhausting all that is contained in this message. There is a spirit of revelation being released that will help us to see the depths of God and His purposes. Along with this, we will see a hunger increasing for knowing Him better and deeper. So our devotion this year to understand The Great Commission with more depth is to seek to walk in it and do our parts to help the body of Christ fulfill its mandate. Let’s begin by reading it:

“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 
“teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (see Matthew 28:18-20).

When the body of Christ recovers this basic mandate, it will arise and mature into all that it has been called to be. That day is now at hand.

The Great Commission focuses and encompasses our full purpose in Christ. First we must become His disciple. A disciple is a student, but in biblical times it was much more than just a student. A disciple lived to know their master and to become like their master. A disciple of Christ lives to know Him, to become like Him, and to do the works that He did just as He commanded us. Until we do this, we have not matured as we should. Regardless of how superficial our Christian life has been, this can change now and will for all who seek to walk in their full purpose.