‘Go’ ‘Follow’ ‘Add’ : Reinterpreting the Great Commission for Today

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Dean Roberts Posted in Church, Evangelism, Mission, New Media and The Digital World, Theology | Leave a comment

Go. Follow. Add.

All three of these words are commonly used in Social Networking. We ‘go’ to webpages. We ‘follow’ people on Twitter. We ‘add’ people on Facebook. Funnily enough, the New Testament talks about all three of these terms. We are to go and make disciples (Matthew 28:18-20), we are to tell people to follow Jesus (Matthew 16:24) and that by following Jesus and going to make disciples, numbers are added to the Church daily (Acts 2:47). So how do we fit the mission model found in Matthew 28 to our online presence? Read more