Wrestling With the Great Commission

Father’s Day is a day when we all try to express our appreciation to our fathers, no matter how old we are. And one of the best ways to do that is to do what he has asked or trained us to do.

It should be so with our Heavenly Father as well!

And Matthew 28:19-20, which is known as “The Great Commission” issues this command as Jesus' last words to his disciples:

Therefore, go 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 I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

Two episodes ago I had Dr Timothy West as my guest to discuss “Don’t Give Up on the Church” because over the last twenty-five years 40,000,000 Americans have stopped going to church, creating what has been called The Great Dechurching, the largest concentrated change in church attendance since the Civil War.

I wanted to explore this further with Tim’s longtime friend Bob Van Der Ploeg who has done some very interesting research of his own on the Jesus Model of the early church vs what most churches today are using as their model which clearly is not working very well.

Bob has been a consultant and trainer for FellowshipOne for the last 16 years and is now CEO of a new business venture called Disciple Technologies which develops tools to help churches better manage their disciple-making efforts and activities.  As a technical dude he decided to query ChatGPT on our wrestling match for this episode and we present the results with ChatGPT as our second "guest"!

I believe those experimenting or familiar with ChatGPT will find this episode quite fascinating!  Check it out for yourself and let me hear your feedback.

You can lear more about Bob's company by visiting his website at:

www.discipletechnologies.net

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