I was editing something last night, and was removing text. Not because the text was poor. But because it was not on point: it was not on topic for that paper, that presentation.

When I consider the blog — particularly one, like this, where you post fairly frequently — you are not making one point per paragraph, but one point per post.

And today we read, again, our mission, our orders. To make disciples.

It is not to gain the levers of power, but to make disciples.

It is not to reform our naiton, but to make disciples.

And it is not only for our nation that we are to make disciples.

Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 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, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

(Matthew 28:16-20 ESV)

It is not about our doubt. It is about proclaiming Christ. TO all people, inlcuding those who thing CHrist matters not, or are hostile. TO those who whould not give us a platform. There is a place for witness in the internets, where censorship is coded as damage and rounted around: there is a place for the street preacher, there is a place for the missionary.

And there is a great place for faithful families, who ignore the tradttions of this society and live uprightly. We are to make disciples, we are to grow disciples. So that Christ can call all of his home, and so that God will have the glory.