The Great Commission is not about getting decisions but about making disciples. -Ligon Duncan

A law is established in the gospel that whoever receives it shall be accepted and saved. But Christ knows none, of themselves, will receive the gospel. Therefore He sends them His Holy Spirit to quicken them (John 6:63). By His Holy Spirit, He causes those who are ‘dead to hear His voice.’ Christ lived and died in order to work out a perfect righteousness for His people. He then tells them what He has done and finally He actually gives this righteousness to them and regards them as if they had worked out that righteousness themselves, so that by this righteousness they will be perfectly accepted by the Father.- John Owen-Communion with God

By the grace of sanctification, our best duties are cleansed from defilement. Even our very best duties are defiled (Isa. 64:6). Self, unbelief, and formality insinuate themselves into all that we do. God has promised that the saints’ good works shall follow them. In fact, if our good works were tested and weighed in the balance of the sanctuary, it would be just as well if they were buried forever. But the Lord Christ, as our High Priest, bears the iniquity and the guilt of our best works and washes away all their filth and defilement. He is like a refiner’s fire to purge both the sons of Levi and their offerings, adding sweet incense to them so that they may be accepted (Ma. 3:3). Whatever is of the Spirit Himself, or of grace, will remain. Whatever is of self, flesh and unbelief, that is wood hay and stubble. These He burns up. The good works of the saints shall meet them one day with a changed face, so that even they will not recognize them. That which seemed to the saints to be black, deformed and defiled shall appear beautiful and glorious. Saints shall not be afraid of their works, but rejoice in them.- John Owen,Communion with God