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Day 5: Mission

The third vow of Infinitum is mission. And the most famous expression of our mission in Scripture is known as the Great Commission that we’ve quoted here. Jesus is sending His disciples out with a mission. Those of us who are His disciples today receive the same commission: make disciples of all nations.

That’s overwhelming for most of us. I mean, ‘all nations’! Come on.

So, let’s simplify. We’ll drop the last half of that statement for a few moments

Make disciples.

Does that sound more feasible? Sure. Do you know what’s even more manageable?

Make disciple.

Singular. Start with one. If you are a parent, you might want to start with your child. See—that’s not unrealistic! If you’re not, ask the Lord, and look around for someone who isn’t quite as far advanced in following Jesus, and consider that person.

Two things: 

First, you want to be a disciple yourself. It comes from a Greek word that means ‘learner’ and in practice in the Biblical world, it connoted a committed follower. Today you might think of an apprentice, who is vocationally devoted to learning from an expert to become like the expert. We apprentice with Jesus to become like Him. And there is also an assimilation process happening, as we assimilate Jesus (we take Him in and fully understand Him) and we are assimilated into His life.

Second, how does it look? There are lots of ways it can look. The framework we use at Infinitum is Infinitum: follow Jesus; loving God, loving others; live surrender, generosity, and mission. And we don’t do this thing solo—we engage in this way of life with someone else or a few others in what we call a hub. Our rhythm goes with three Cs:

Connect daily – with God;
Converse weekly – with your hubmates (typically an hour meeting)
Challenge monthly – with Infinitum participants globally (optional)

And once you make one disciple, your disciple will make one, and you can make another, and so on. Then you are making disciples, plural.