This is what the Lord told us to do: 'I have made you a light for the other nations, to show people all over the world the way to be saved.'"

He said to them, "Go everywhere in the world. Tell the Good News to everyone.

I don't care about my own life. The most important thing is that I finish my work. I want to finish the work that the Lord Jesus gave me to do to tell people the Good News about God's grace.

People don't hide a lamp under a bowl. They put it on a lampstand. Then the light shines for everyone in the house.
In the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do and praise your Father in heaven.

So go and make followers of all people in the world. Baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Teach them to obey everything that I have told you to do. You can be sure that I will be with you always. I will continue with you until the end of time."

I am proud of the Good News, because it is the power God uses to save everyone who believes to save the Jews first, and now to save those who are not Jews.

Give thanks to the Lord and call out to him! Tell the nations what he has done!

But keep the Lord Christ holy in your hearts. Always be ready to answer everyone who asks you to explain about the hope you have.

So faith comes from hearing the Good News. And people hear the Good News when someone tells them about Christ.

"You are the light that shines for the world to see. You are like a city built on a hill that cannot be hidden.

Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to remember the Good News I told you about. You received that Good News message, and you continue to base your life on it.
It is that Good News that saves you, but you must continue believing the message just as I told it to you. If you don't, then you believed for nothing.

At that time you will say, "Praise the Lord and call out his name! Tell everyone what he has done and how wonderful he is."

Any of you who try to save the life you have will lose it. But you who give up your life for me and for the Good News will save it.

All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other."

You, however, must tell everyone how to live in a way that agrees with the true teaching.

"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its taste, it cannot be made salty again. Salt is useless if it loses its salty taste. It will be thrown out where people will just walk on it.

God chose you to have that salvation. He chose you by using the Good News that we told you. You were chosen so that you can share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Then I will show how great I am. I will prove that I am holy. Many nations will see me do these things, and they will learn who I am. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

But the Holy Spirit will come on you and give you power. You will be my witnesses. You will tell people everywhere about me in Jerusalem, in the rest of Judea, in Samaria, and in every part of the world."

God decided to let his people know that rich and glorious truth, which is for all people. That truth is Christ himself, who is in you. He is our only hope for glory.

I want you to produce much fruit and show that you are my followers. This will bring glory to my Father.

From that time Jesus began to tell people his message: "Change your hearts and lives, because God's kingdom is coming soon."

I decided that while I was with you I would forget about everything except Jesus Christ and his death on the cross.

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me. He has chosen me to tell good news to the poor. He sent me to tell prisoners that they are free and to tell the blind that they can see again. He sent me to free those who have been treated badly

Jesus said, "I can promise that everyone who has left their home, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, or farm for me and for the Good News about me
will get a hundred times more than they left. Here in this world they will get more homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and farms. And with these things they will have persecutions. But in the world that is coming they will also get the reward of eternal life.