Do you think of yourself as an ordinary person and make the same judgment of most other people you meet? You may regard a few as exceptional, but only a few, because according to conventional wisdom if everyone is special then no one is. Your culture is adept at identifying these distinctions and highly aware of them. But there are no ordinary people in the Kingdom of God. Each person you meet is fearfully and wonderfully made. Each one has a destiny, a future and a hope in me. Not all will walk in the fullness of them, but if you walk in grace and love toward them you can give them honor and respect for their potential. If you are willing to do this you may help facilitate them into the manifestation of their true eternal destiny. 

When you pray, do you have an objective and an outcome in mind, and consider the prayer to be answered if you get what you ask for, and not answered if you don’t? Is it possible that prayer has a purpose beyond getting what you want, and that this can be accomplished even if the prayer isn’t ‘answered’ in the conventional sense? You are changed when you pray. It makes you the type of person who acknowledges God as the answerer of prayers and the rewarder of those who seek him. It increases your faith, trust, and hope. I am not reluctant to grant the requests you make, but there are purposes for prayer beyond provision. 

Do you have a testimony? Everyone who is saved should be able to describe how it happened, not only in broad theological terms, but by their own experience. This personal story can be shared to strengthen the faith of others, and to bring others into faith. Have you made spiritual progress since you were saved? My word describes discipleship which is a full life commitment to follow me. I commissioned my disciples to go and make disciples of all men, and this applies to you as well. How do you go about doing this? You have a testimony of when you were saved. Do you also have a testimony of when you became a disciple? In a manner similar to your salvation testimony, use your discipleship testimony to make disciples. 

Do you think of an evangelist as someone with a special gift and calling that enables them to present the gospel message effectively and win converts into the Kingdom of God? Yet doesn’t every believer know that this task is not reserved for a select few, but is the assignment of all Christians? They refer to the Great Commission, but a careful reading of this passage reveals that after presenting the gospel message you are to make disciples rather than converts. You are correct in seeing a distinction and realizing that this is the more difficult task. How do you do this more demanding task if you are not even an evangelist? The first disciple to make is yourself.