The great commission applies to the ecclesia who had embraced the gospel of the kingdom as started by John the Baptist and fulfilled by Jesus Christ.

The Christians who don’t have that gospel of the kingdom within them should not feel the obligation to go into all the world preaching.

So some of us should lay down that ambition and walk away from the mic.

Large portions of the New Testament just do not track at all with what is on display on Sunday mornings in the vast majority of churches.

And when that gospel is recovered it will be obvious, Christians will meet like they met, they will love one another like they did. There will be equality among us like there was then.

And then what is called “the great commission” will apply to groups of Christians working together. Not to lone super-stars building their religious empires.