Go.  Unmistakably Jesus commissions his disciples (from then to now) to go into all the world and preach the good news: “He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well’” (Mark 16:15-18).  You go, you proclaim the gospel and the result will be more disciples.  Demons, tongues, snakes, poison, healing – supernatural elements revealing that   heaven is touching earth!  The supernatural signs accompany the proclamation and belief in the gospel.  The big idea here is that nothing can stop the progress of the gospel: sickness, demonic oppression or evil.  The only thing that inhibits the growth of the good news is if the disciples do not “go.”  That is where it all begins – when a disciples is willing to go and make Christ known.  “Going” may mean moving to another country; it definitely means going across the street, across the hall, or as simply as talking to a stranger as you wait in line.  Going is about expressing God’s love – whatever that looks like in the moment.  Offer yourself to God now as one who will ‘go.’  To whom do you believe God is sending you today?

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