Name Tags: You Are… Commissioned

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…

Matthew 29:19 (ESV)

Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to the whole creation.

Mark 16:15 (ESV)

You are witnesses of these things.

Luke 24:48 (ESV)

As the Father has sent Me, even so I am sending you.

John 20:21 (ESV)

You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the Earth.

Acts 1:8 (ESV)

If you're commissioned, you have a mission.

  • Jesus is crucially clear about it.

  • He said it, taught it, and acted on it.

  • He left no room for doubt or confusion.

  • Instead, He spent three years fleshing it out.

His mission concerns love and salvation. As in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost love Earth's people extraordinarily. 

They want us to live with Them FOREVER. God demonstrated the scope of His love when Jesus gave up His Life to save us.

After Jesus ascended to Heaven, His followers thought He'd come back quickly… but now it's been close to two thousand years.* Why have so many generations passed?

Is it because He's still waiting on us to FULLY COMPLETE His Great Commission? And because lost sheep are yet to be found?**

Actors, models, and talent for Christ,

In regards to your commissioned status, you get what too many Christians forget: hanging with other Christians in small groups can't begin to match where your Namesake hung. 

Surely NOT on the hill called Calvary, but ALSO NOT when He hung with people… other Jews labeled “undesirable”.

Heading to the fields of Entertainment is a commission written JUST FOR YOU. Because within them you will find large groups of lost, lonely, and seeking people (fans).

Christians might call them undesirable, but they’re HIGHLY desirable to God. Some of them will follow you to Jesus.

Name Tags: You Are… Commissioned (Part 23)

* Since 'A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day' (2 Peter 3:8, NKJV), it's only been two days in Heaven since Jesus left. Therein, His Promise, 'Surely I am coming quickly' (Revelation 22:20) still pertains.

** 'For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, Who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth' (1 Timothy 2:3-4).

** ' 'Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?' says the Lord God, 'and not that he should turn from his ways and live?' ' (Ezekiel 18:23).

NOTE: God is my Ghostwriter. If what I write is good, it’s from God. You may see notes to 'Actors, Models & Talent for Christ.' If you think you're not in show business, think again. Shakespeare said, 'All the world's a stage and all its men and women merely players.’ Mostly true. But you're not merely players. You are messengers and ambassadors for the King of kings.

Carey Arban