What Is The Gospel Of Matthew's Gospel Model

Gospel of Matthew: Discipleship Model The gospel of Matthew’s overarching theme can be summarized in the Great Commission, Matthew 28:16-20. It is for the Jewish Christian Community that Matthew writes his gospel. His goal is to assist with the development of a missionary culture that will match the challenges of his community and he uses his gospel as a vehicle to accomplish his goal. (Bosch: 59) Matthew, through his gospel, suggests that the differences between the Pharisaic Jews and the Jewish Christians could be bridged through missions to the Gentiles. He desired for his community to transition from a sectarian view to an inclusive one. (Bosch: 60) In Matthew’s opinion, a missionary community was one that understood itself as being different from the community in which it lived but also commuted to changing that community for the better. (Bosch: 84) Matthew used the key concepts of the Great Commission as a tool to assist his readers with self-identity and to attempt to bridge the gap between the Jewish Christians and the legalistic Pharisees of the time.
The important concepts found in the Gospel of Matthew were “the reign of God, Gods will, justice, commandments, the challenge to be perfect, to surpass or excel, to observe or keep, to bear fruit and to teach.” Matthew’s gospel focuses on these key concepts;
His focus is on Jesus Christ and his sacrifice as the reason why individuals should repent and live better lives. What’s interesting about Luke is that, unlike Matthew, he does not portray the Jewish people as the only ones who reject Jesus but writes that both Jews and Gentiles rejected Jesus. In his writings, it is the Holy Spirit that “initiates” the mission and directs the missionary where they should go, as seen in his writings about Paul. (Bosch 115) Now let’s look at Bosch’s comparison of the