The Great Commission as we read in Matthew 28:18-20 ~ Go out and make disciples of all nations!

Making disciples... start simple, start at home, start with family. God created male and female, he said that a man shall leave his mother and father and joins to his wife ~ Ephesians 5:31. In this way, they become one...and they become a family.  You see, God created the family, He represents 'family' in His triune nature - Father/Son/Holy Spirit and along with the created angelic beings He commands (Nehemiah 9:6, 2 Kings 19:15, Isaiah 37:16). As the body of Christ We are family. God does not want to lose any of His family.

In the fallen world, though saved... we need to be discipled and make disciples. Go out into all the world, Yes but that does not mean you have to go afar to Timbuktu or Tahiti or Shanghi or Siberia... Your own home, your own family is the place to get started and from there your community/church.

Mothers/wives, disciple your family by a display of love in serving them, caring for them by cooking (preparing a meal/setting a nice table), by cleaning the house, washing their clothes, ironing, reading the Word to them, and shopping wisely for essentials etc. ~ Proverbs 31 Wives submit to your husbands as they treat you as their own body/church. Ephesians 5:22

Dads/husbands, disciple your family by a display of love in serving them by caring and showing mercy. Dad's especially administer the serving of mercy: forgiving when you want to punish harshly for disobedience. Not that children won't be punished but not harshly... its your holding back that displays mercy to them and they will not forget it. Ephesians 6:4

Husbands love your wives as your own body, as the church. Ephesians 5:25 This godly behavior, as put forward in the Bible for mother/wife-dad/husband, is Christian discipleship in the family.

A mature disciple (reads scripture, prays fervent yet reverent and devotional but certainly not mechanically/ritually, sings praise that loves and worships God, fasts, demonstrates acts of caring and mercy) and even more than that. Its about joyfully loving God above all else!

You may demonstrate acts of caring and mercy, but even the secular world can do that much. So, how can we as born again in Christ do that (be caring and merciful) and be different from the world? Because, we can do more, greater is He in you than he who is in the world. 1 John 4:4 

Its about who we give credit to and who we glorify - Jesus Christ. Mature discipling Christians do not behave as the world does; and that means they are not 'showman'... looking for applause. They do more privately, behind closed doors in their prayer closets ...

And, mature disciples share in other's suffering... they are not afraid to go into the place of suffering where they find someone in need of saving/discipling. 

For many Americans, sharing in someone else's suffering is avoided. I have people say, who wants to be around sick people, poor people, ignorant people etc. Yet they are in need of salvation and discipleship.Yes ours is the great commission! Why? Because, God so loved the world. And, we partake in that love!

 

Galatians 2:20 ~ I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

1 Thessalonians 4:13 ~ And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope ~ New Living Translation.

We make disciples because God so loved the world He sent His Son to deliver us from the curse of sin and death in order that we have eternal life ~ John 3:16.