To Reach the Lost and to Make Disciples
What is this task? Read Matthew 28:19-20, Ephesians 4:12-13, Luke 19:10, John 17:18, John 20:21, and Acts 1:8. What is the task?: To reach the lost and make disciples.
Everything that the church, local or international, should be about doing ultimately must support this task if it is to be the body of Christ. This means that programs, models, and cultures will come and go. They are not to be worshipped. Rather, they are only to be recognized and used for the task or they are to be set aside when they are not reaching the lost. The leading edge of the cardinal task of the church is prayer.
Perhaps you say, "But we have been about this task for some time now." That is good. Here is the thing. This task begins anew everyday. And so we pray anew, every day.
One person wrote: "We live in a day characterized by the multiplication of man's machinery and the diminution of God's power. The great cry of our day is work, work, work, organize, organize, organize, give us some new society, tell us some new methods, devise some new machinery: but the great need of our day is prayer, more prayer."
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