- Lesson Nine in the Connect360 unit “GC2 Strong: A Great Commandment and Great Commission Awakening” focuses on Romans 10:11-15; Matthew 9:35-38.
We all love to receive good news. There is something about the contrast between having a hard day and the moment you receive some unexpected good news.
Your countenance and possibly even your posture changes because, despite what the situation looked like, there was hope for a better day.
While the good news in this example is trivial compared to the good news of Jesus Christ, we know the only way to get the good news is if someone tells you the good news. Obedient disciples impact lives when God sends them to the nations and they share the good news.
God is sending brothers and sisters in Christ to reach the nations, proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ. From the most remote part of East Africa to the shores of Honolulu, missionaries are delivering the message of the good news.
How will the children in the remote or inaccessible parts of the world become Christ-followers if nobody shares the gospel with them? How will they call upon his name if they have not believed?
Perhaps there is no indigenous Christian community in the remote area for evangelism efforts to spread.
Whatever the case may be, those who have not heard the gospel need a messenger. Until they hear of Jesus, any worship is that of idols and not of the true and living God.
The apostle Paul asked several questions related to how a person reaches the point of salvation.
A person must first hear a message to believe it, and they can’t hear it if there is no one there to share it, and no one will be there to share the message if they are not first sent (10:14–15).
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God is sending messengers to proclaim the gospel of peace. God sends followers to offer his word that brings reconciliation between God and people.
Righteousness and salvation are available to the nations, to those who believe and confess to the Lord.
The Christian faith is an inclusive faith. Jesus prepared a way for the redemption of people. All people.
He was the sacrifice for our sins, “delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification” (Romans 4:25). Churches must equip disciples to share Christ and show love.
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