The Great Commission refers to Jesus' command "to go and make disciples of all nations." Over the centuries,particularly in these affluent modern times,we have gotten away from the original intent of this Great Commission.The author,writing the following in 1921,offers some insights that are very applicable to the time we are now living in.
"His commission to His disciples never embraced the founding of culture and the fine arts; the purification of politics,and municipal reform,are not found in His Ascension charge; His aim was not the gradual civilization of the world,but the renunciation of it; through ignorance or knowledge,through wealth or poverty, through arts polite or barbarous,the Church is to carry the flaming torch of the Gospel,to draw out a people of light."
(from Democracy,Socialism and the Sermon on the Mount by D.M.Panton,1921).
"His commission to His disciples never embraced the founding of culture and the fine arts; the purification of politics,and municipal reform,are not found in His Ascension charge; His aim was not the gradual civilization of the world,but the renunciation of it; through ignorance or knowledge,through wealth or poverty, through arts polite or barbarous,the Church is to carry the flaming torch of the Gospel,to draw out a people of light."
(from Democracy,Socialism and the Sermon on the Mount by D.M.Panton,1921).
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