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Why you, and why now
God does not need human beings to evangelize the world. He could use the angels, Balaam’s donkey, or make the stones cry out. If he nevertheless entrusts the mission to every believer, it is not for lack of means: it is because you need the mission to form in yourself a character like Christ’s. Witnessing is therefore neither an institutional burden nor a gift reserved for a few — it is a spiritual need, like prayer or breathing.
“It is not enough to run. You need to know why you run.”
Total Member Involvement
Every member — man, woman, youth — becomes a worker for God. Not an addition (one pastor winning crowds) but a multiplication: a disciple who makes a disciple, who makes a disciple. Of the ~20 million Adventists, two million engaged in this chain would be enough to reach the planet. The final horizon is not a statistic: it is the glorious Church, “without spot or wrinkle,” that Jesus is coming back for — the final harvest.
“We have many members but few disciples.”
What this journey concretely aims at
- Move the believer from spectator to actor in the mission.
- Anchor the daily triad: Bible, prayer, witness — inseparable.
- Choose five people and carry them in prayer, without growing weary.
- Practice Christ’s method: mingle, do good, win trust, invite.
- Make the Church receptive — welcome people as they are.
- Go all the way to forming a disciple who, in turn, makes others.
“It is by communion with Him, daily, hourly,—by abiding in Him,—that we are to grow in grace.”
It is all there: the daily (“daily, hourly”) rekindles the flame; growth in grace is the work of a lifetime. The flame weakens if the fuel does not feed it each morning — and the daily appointment only matters because it nourishes a life that is growing.
And when you fall?
These nine movements show the climb. But we fall — that is certain: sin, discouragement, a devotional time let go. The journey does not stop there, and neither does God.
“Even if we are overcome by the enemy, we are not cast off, not forsaken and rejected of God. No; Christ is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” Ellen G. White, Steps to Christ, “The Test of Discipleship,” p. 64
What to do, concretely
- Do not draw back in despair. Overcome is not rejected. You have an advocate: “if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1).
- Confess — right away. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us” (1 John 1:9).
- Return to the altar the same day. Do not wait to “deserve” your return — that would be falling back into the trap of works. Rebuild the altar, as on the first day.
- Get up and start again. “The righteous falls seven times, and rises again” (Proverbs 24:16).
- The battle is Christ’s, not yours. “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me” (Galatians 2:20). Bullón: “salvation is by grace.”
You have completed the journey.
But for Bullón, the real finish line is not here: a disciple is complete only when they begin to make another. For “a disciple is not born, but made” — and made to make.
“It is not enough to run. You need to know why you run.”