Many of our neighbours in this global village want to learn English in order to communicate with the rest of the world. Obviously it must be by God’s divine providence that the English language (regardless of whether it is the Queen’s English or Hollywood English!) is the Twenty First Century’s international language of technology, commerce, diplomacy, international law and higher education.

One of the most concrete ways for Christians to witness to the person and love of the Lord Jesus Christ is to live out the Great Commandment by teaching the English language to the countless people in the non Western world who want to learn English, mainly for the sake of better economic prospects.

Christians, for whom the English language is native tongue, can do no better to fulfill the Great Commission than lovingly teach the English language to people who may otherwise never meet a Christian in their entire life!

Have you ever asked yourself why is English the international language of the Twenty-First Century? Out of the many reasons that we can think of, the chief one must surely be ‘It is the loving God’s way of helping us to love our neighbours as ourselves.’

So the next time that you recite or hear the Great Commandment in the English language, ask yourself when are you going to teach this beautiful language to someone who is in the need of seeing the Great Commandment lived out in the flesh.

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