Jesus’ closest companions, tasked with the founding of the church, would not be drafted from the finest rabbinical schools or from among the educated scribes or the bluebloods in Herod’s court, but would be plucked, like so many of Israel’s leaders, from the ranks of the common. The kingdom of God seems to travel away from the places of power and toward the unheralded, the unseen, the unqualified. The carpenter King, born in poverty on the backside of nobility, seeks His followers among those whom the world does not see.
What did Jesus see in the lives of Andrew, Simon Peter, and John, that He spoke so directly into their lives?
If Jesus were to talk with you and me, face to face, looking into our eyes, what would He say?
“Having called his men, Jesus made a practice of being with them. This was the essence of his training program—just letting his disciples follow him.” - Robert E. Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism
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