…and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.
Matthew 28:20
The Great Commission isn’t merely about belief–it’s a lifelong journey of relational transformation through obedient love. This framework organizes Jesus’ commands across six core relationships in three dynamic dimensions, unified by a relational topology and transfigurative metric that illuminate the paradoxical unity of His way.
1. Dimensions of Dwelling
A. Worth – Connecting to Godhood
Father:
- Love God with all your heart – Mark 12:30
- Worship in spirit and truth – John 4:24
- Pray in secret and continually – Matthew 6:6
- Believe in the One He sent – John 6:29
- Fear not; trust your Father – Luke 12:32
- Be perfect as your Father is perfect – Matthew 5:48
Son:
- Follow Me – Matthew 4:19
- Take My yoke and learn from Me – Matthew 11:29
- Abide in Me – John 15:4
- Remember Me in the meal – Luke 22:19
- Let the little children come to Me – Matthew 19:14
B. Crux – Connecting Self to Others
Self:
- Repent and be baptized – Matthew 4:17
- Deny yourself and take up your cross – Luke 9:23
- Be humble and childlike – Matthew 18:3
- Do not worry about your life – Matthew 6:25
Others:
- Love your neighbor as yourself – Mark 12:31
- Love one another as I have loved you – John 13:34
- Do to others as you would have them do to you – Matthew 7:12
- Forgive as you’ve been forgiven – Matthew 6:14–15
- Judge not, but correct yourself first – Matthew 7:1–5
- Go reconcile with your brother – Matthew 5:23–24
- Give to the one who asks – Matthew 5:42
- Serve one another in humility – John 13:14–15
C. Glory – Connecting Kingdom to World
Kingdom:
- Seek first the Kingdom – Matthew 6:33
- Go and make disciples – Matthew 28:19–20
- Let your light shine – Matthew 5:16
- Proclaim the good news – Mark 16:15
- Be salt and light – Matthew 5:13–14
- Beware of false teachers – Matthew 7:15
- Be ready; keep watch – Matthew 24:42
- Store up treasures in heaven – Matthew 6:19–20
World:
- Rejoice in persecution – Matthew 5:11–12
- Be wise as serpents, innocent as doves – Matthew 10:16
2. Topology of Connecting
The Tri-Möbius Volume is a mathematical space that models the paradoxical unity of the three dimensions of discipleship. Each dimension (Worth, Crux, Glory) is like a Möbius band—travel far enough towards one, and you arrive at its complement, mirrored.
- Father <> Son
- Self <> Other
- Kingdom <> World
This is how divergence ultimately leads to converge and transformation (and vice versa — if we follow hard enough).
The Form Dimension
Intriguingly, to create a Tri-Möbius Volume requires a hidden “mirror” dimension, which we can describe as “Law <> Grace.”
- We start out with learning the Law, which forms a sense of self that help us live in community
- When we fail to live up to that self, we experience Shame, which forms a God-shaped hole within us.
- When Christ fills that hole with Grace, it births a new self that does what is right out of joyful love, not fear of shame.
- When carried deeply enough, though, that level of Grace forms a new Law and new self, and the cycle begins again.
3. Measure of Growth:
We can measure how well we are filling this entire space with a single question:
Am I becoming—and helping others become—someone who relates like Jesus?
This metric is known as Transfigurative Yield: a divine becoming that begets more becoming. A life of yielded love, bearing fruit across all six facets and looping endlessly through the Möbius structure of Kingdom transformation.
My prayer is that reflecting on these six facets of Christ’s commands will help you —as it helps me — identify where God wants me to grow next in order to enter the fullness of His abundant life.
Radically Happy 
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