GotNoBlue’s Weblog

We tend to put a lot of stock into a person’s last words. When it’s the last thing that you can to say, it tends to be a message that carries a lot of weight for the speaker.

The bible records the last words of Jesus, prior to His ascension after the resurrection in the book of Matthew. We call this the “Great Commission”, the charge to go out into the world and make disciples.

So Christians for centuries have been doing just that. Going out and converting the pagans. Because Jesus said this at the end of time on earth, we put a lot of stock in it. It is not a commandment to gloss over.

But read closely. Jesus said to “teach them to obey everything that I have commanded you.”

Jesus also said that the greatest commandment(s) were to love God with all we are (paraphrase) and to love our neighbors.

I think we are sometimes guilty of trying to convert without trying to love.

Maybe we should be more concerned with a person’s heart than adding another notch to our bibles.