Can't Let Go
Dave Ferguson, in his book Hero Maker, gives us something to think about. He says Jesus spent 73% of his time with the disciples. 46 events in the Gospel were with the disciples, 17 with the masses.
Is that how we think about Jesus and His ministry, that the preponderance of his time was spent training the Twelve?
Are we willing to be trained that way? It's available to us, right there in the Gospels and Acts!
Probably about 2 years ago, my Wednesday night Bible study was on Mark, but very intentionally about what is the discipleship training going on.
We just started John, same emphasis. Yesterday evening, we noticed a couple things... Jesus embeds His teaching in the Old Testament! (Cool points if you catch the Old Testament reference in John 1:51) and...when He called disciples, they went and told someone else! Andrew told Peter, Philip told Nathanael.
Who are you going to tell?
Will you submit to the training regimen in the Gospel?
Doesn't it stand to reason that to imitate Christ would be to... make disciples?
Need to do as Jesus did. Yes, I have a couple of people— one in mind from my church. She sees the Buddhist monks as good examples of peace makers. She needs grounded in who she is in Jesus, starting with the Beatitudes, John 14-17. Suggestions?