Context:
Mat 04:18 As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
Mat 4:19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Mat 4:20 Immediately they left their nets and followed him.
Mat 4:21 And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.
Mat 4:22 Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed him.
Matthew 28:19 fishing in the water
Matthew 28:20 mending = equipping on the shore … bifold, two places, two cooperating parts, ambidextrous
What does it mean to repent?
FIRST priority task
Follow me and learn how to fish for people.
Set up both kinds of disciples to be equipped
– reapers and sowers … What we do OUTSIDE with others.
– menders and senders … What you are learning INSIDE our small groups.
1. General message: Repent.
2. Private invitation: follow me.
3. Responsive to needs brought: heal them. Draws a crowd.
FIRST priority task
Follow me and learn how to fish for people.
Set up both kinds of disciples to be equipped
– reapers and sowers … What we do OUTSIDE with others.
– menders and senders … What you are learning INSIDE our small groups.
What are the commands of Jesus Christ which we need to obey? In disciple-making, Jesus commanded the following in Matthew 28:20: “teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you…” What are the commands that we are to follow and teach others as identified by Jesus’ use of the imperative mood in the Greek?
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