Somos um exemplo para aqueles a quem ensinamos e treinamos, quer gostemos, quer não.” (pp. 83) - Colin Marshall

We are training people to be contributors and servants, not spectators and consumers.

Mas alguém que nos observa de fora poderia dizer: ‘Veja, ali está alguém que renunciou sua vida para seguir Jesus Cristo e sua missão’?” (pp. 51)

Sometimes our translations may give the impression that ‘go’ is the emphasis of the command, but the main verb of the sentence is ‘make disciples’, with three subordinate participles hanging off it: going (or ‘as you go’), baptizing and teaching. ‘Baptizing’ and ‘teaching’ are the means by which the disciples are to be made. Whatever else baptism might symbolize or involve, here it refers to the initiation of disciples into repentance and submission to the authoritative Jesus, the reigning Lord of the world.