In order to do this, we believe it involves a kind of education process. And because it is the responsibility of every member of the congregation, rather than conduct a separate school sometime during the week, we believe that the only time to do it is Sunday morning. N ow the passage of Scripture for our consideration this morning is so very familiar that I realize it is impossible for me to say anything new about it. I risk redundancy, but I don t apologize, because this is introductory to the whole idea of discipleship. It sets the scene, as it were, establishing the fundamentals.
Fundamentals are important.
The greatest professional and college football coaches are those who run their players through the fundamentals, even though those players especially when they re pros do them almost by second nature. But they keep working on fundamentals. Let s not sabotage the word it s a good word. It s essential to life, and we need again and again to be brought back to fundamentals. This passage in Matthew 28 is fundamental to understanding ourselves as a church as a body of Christ as a fellowship of believers.