the GREAT debate!

My friend Dave DeVries posted this comment worth being included in this post: "It is tragic that the Great Commission has been more debated than it has been obeyed in church history." George W. Peters (A Biblical Theology of Missions, p. 173)

My good friend Mike Ehret posted this comment from a friend who paraphrases Brian McLaren who recently spoke at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana. "He (McLaren) very much believes in a subversive approach to living out our faith, and I think there is something to that - subverting the powers that be in the world and subverting some of our long entrenched doctrine and positions that keep us from truly being like Christ. We're Christian, but not Christ-like."

Hummm... the Planter writes: We are Christian, but not Christ-like? Those who debate the Great Commission priority for all Christ-followers are those we call "Christian". Because Jesus never argues against the Great Commission priority for every Christ-follower -we who strive to be Christ-Like, never argue against it either.