"The 'go' in 'go, therefore, and make disciples...' actually means 'go about your business'. Go, be a lawyer and make disciples. Go, be a CPA and make disciples. Go, be a teacher and make disciples. Go, do what God has called you to do. And make disciples." --The guest preacher in church on Sunday
But a bunch of other people put up cool ones as well.
Here are my top ten favorites from that list...
-Humility is like underwear -essential, but indecent if it shows. Anon.
-"The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of, our attention would have been on God."C.S Lewis
-“I’m really excited about being part of a church that does not want to be a clubhouse with a cross on top.” Unknown
-"If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed-for." Charles Spurgeon
-"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" Abraham Lincoln when accused of being two-faced.
-"You can kill us, but you can't hurt us." Justin Martyr
-"Nobody worries about Christ as long as he can be kept shut up in
churches. He is quite safe inside. But there is always trouble if you try and let him out." G. A. Studdert Kennedy
-"Defend the Bible? I would just as soon defend a lion. Just turn the Bible loose. It will defend itself." Charles H. Spurgeon
-"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
and the one that started it all...
-"Smite his cheek, and he turns you the other; slap the dignity of the house of prayer, however, and he turns over a table."
3 comments:
The defend the Bible quote is similar to what I've heard about God. "Defend God? God can defend Himself."
Good stuff.
So, "Go" means "stay"!
Er, I beg to differ! Matthew 10 is all about sending fishermen out into the world to do something they've never done: preach the Gospel.
I know what Keith Green would have said about this eisegesis.
Go: poreuomai, Middle voice word derived from Peira, meaning "a trial, experience, attempt". Poreumai means:
1. to lead over, carry over, transfer
2. to pursue the journey on which one has entered, to continue on one's journey
3. to depart from life
4. to follow one, that is: become his adherent
5. to lead or order one's life
I get the feeling (as I usually do when I go to the Greek) that the original word carries much more meaning than we really know how to express in English. One of my favorite things about this word is definition #4. To go is to follow?
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