“All Authority”

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All Authority: The Kingdom's Great Commission Trinity Sunday · Matthew 28:16–20

What is the church actually for? On a mountain in Galilee, the risen Jesus answers that question with the most sweeping declaration in all of Scripture: "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me." This Trinity Sunday message opens our summer series, The Kingdom Announced, by hearing the Great Commission not as a to-do list or a guilt trip, but as what it truly is — a royal proclamation that the crucified Jesus has been crowned King of everything. Discover why the most important word in the commission is "therefore," why the doubters on the mountain are good news for all of us, and how the promise that bookends Matthew's Gospel — "I am with you always" — changes the way we walk into every ordinary week.

Matthew 28:16-20

“Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. When they saw him, they worshiped him, but they doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”” (Matthew 28:16–20, NRSVue)