Fishing Buddies
"The reason I bring that up is the church is called the bride of Christ. When a person becomes a follower of Christ, he becomes a part of His bride. That raises this question. Why doesn't Jesus take His bride immediately to heaven to be with Him? To put it another way, once you become a follower of Christ, a part of His bride, a part of His body, a part of His family, why does He leave you here instead of taking you to heaven? I am convinced the primary reason we are left on this earth is to fulfill what is known as the "Great Commission" which is the command of Jesus Christ to go out and make disciples of all people. In other words, we have been left here to fish.
"We can spend all eternity worshipping God, singing to God, praying to God, loving God, learning from God, serving God, but only here and only now do we have the chance to fish for people and to reach people for Christ.
"We are in a series that I've entitled "Deep Soul Fishing." Jesus said to his first disciples, "Follow Me and I will make you become fishers of men." He was telling us that followers fish. The reason that this subject is so important is this.
Everybody is going to spend eternity somewhere.
We have been left on this earth to try to get as many people as we can to spend eternity with us and Jesus in heaven.
"If you are a follower of Christ, you are here today because somebody went fishing. But Jesus never meant for fishing to be a solo expedition. Jesus wants us to be His fishing buddies. In the first chapter of the gospel of John we read how some of the very first followers of Jesus became His fishing buddies and they give us a clue on how we can be His fishing buddies as well."
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Keywords: disciple, evangelism, soul winning, fishing, eternity, buddies
