The Fishing Business
"I am sure that is how these men felt, but even more amazing is why Jesus asked these men to follow him. He didn't say, "Follow Me and I will make you prosperous" or "Follow Me and I will make you popular" or even "Follow Me and I will make you powerful." What He did say to them was very surprising, very intimidating and very frightening. He said, "Follow Me and I will make you become fishers of men."
"You can understand if they had looked at him and said, "Thanks, but no thanks." Look at their response.
"Immediately they left their nets and followed Him."
(Mark 1:18, NASB )
"They were gone in sixty seconds! In the blink of an eye, with a snap of a finger (just like that), gone, left home, business, friends and family and began to follow Jesus.
"If you want to know what a true Christian is - there you have it. A Christian is a follower of Jesus. That is where the Christian life begins and ends - following Jesus in life and following Jesus through death.
"There is another lesson we learned and that is to follow is to fish or to put it even more simply - Followers Fish. Jesus kept His word to these men, because by the end of the New Testament, these fishermen became fishers of men. Jesus spent all three years of His ministry doing two things - turning people into followers and turning followers into fishermen."
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Keywords: salvation, evangelism, mission, fish, fishing, saved, reconcile, new life
