The Great Omission from the Great Commission

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UPDATE: Somehow I neglected to include the link back to Mike's post below, so I ended up getting credit for this great post. Sorry, Mike!

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That sure got my attention. Mike Todd posts some thoughts about a Dallas Willard seminar he's attending at the Emergent Convention in San Diego:

I went to Dallas' critical concerns course last year. I can't remember what he called it then, but it was some of the same stuff. Last year the idea that stuck out for me was the notion that we as Christians simply do not believe what we say we believe. This year he has called it The Great Omission from the Great Commission - and How to Fix It. Here's what the outline said:

"The Great Omission from the Great Commission is the phrase, "teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you" (Matt. 28:20). The fact is, teaching people to obey all that Jesus commanded does not even appear on the mental horizon of contemporary Christianity. This course concentrates on the historical, practical, and theological sources of this amazing fact."

This tied right in with my recent struggles and rants regarding the differences between a believer and a disciple. He used the word "Christian" instead of "believer", which drives the point home even more forcefully. Our faith community, inspired greatly by Dallas' writings, has been looking at exactly this issue.

Posted by Mike at March 11, 2004 04:58 PM | TrackBack