Mateus 28

Mateus 28

Piper says "Don't Waste Your Life!" (Read it and Heed it!) The old King James Version is a bit misleading because it is translates the "Go" as if it were a command, and secondly translates the command to make disciples as a participle (verb ending in "-ing") and thirdly it mistranslates the verb matheteuo as "teaching." In fairness, the New KJV offers a more accurate translation - "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." But most translations are still lacking because they render "Go" as if it were a command and as a result the evangelical world has often placed more emphasis on going than on making disciples! Note that the one command make disciples is accompanied by 3 participles - going, baptizing and teaching, all part of the making of a disciple. How much faster our churches would grow, and how much stronger and happier our church members would be, if each one were discipling another believer. Warren