Basic Christianity from the Great Commission

Faith MattersPhilosophical
Written By Edward Wolfe

Many people have suggested basic concepts for Christianity. For example, in the sixteenth century John Calvin famously taught his “five points” as Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints.

But what concepts did Jesus himself espouse in the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20)? Here are the 12 taught by Jesus:

  1. Jesus’s authority

  2. Jesus’s identity as the Son of God

  3. Heaven and earth

  4. Reason and faith

  5. Go

  6. All nations

  7. Make disciples

  8. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

  9. All that He commanded

  10. With you

  11. Surely

  12. The end of the age

    I hope to expand a bit on each of these 12 points in coming blog articles. Meanwhile, you can see the entire study here.

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Edward Wolfe

Edward Wolfe has been a fan of Christian apologetics since his teenage years, when he began seriously to question the truth of the Bible and the reality of Jesus. About twenty years ago, he started noticing that Christian evidences roughly fell into five categories, the five featured on this website.
Although much of his professional life has been in Christian circles (12 years on the faculties of Pacific Christian College, now a part of Hope International University, and Manhattan Christian College and also 12 years at First Christian Church of Tempe), much of his professional life has been in public institutions (4 years at the University of Colorado and 19 years at Tempe Preparatory Academy).
His formal academic preparation has been in the field of music. His bachelor degree was in Church Music with a minor in Bible where he studied with Roger Koerner, Sue Magnusson, Russel Squire, and John Rowe; his master’s was in Choral Conducting where he studied with Howard Swan, Gordon Paine, and Roger Ardrey; and his doctorate was in Piano Performance, Pedagogy, and Literature, where he also studied group dynamics, humanistic psychology, and Gestalt theory with Guy Duckworth.
He and his wife Louise have four grown children and six grandchildren.

https://WolfeMusicEd.com
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