GO FISH
Matthew 4:19 (KJV)
"And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."
Okay, we caught some fish; we laid our fishing equipment down and began to teach how to catch fish. We have proclaimed it is more important to teach how to catch fish than it is to catch fish. Well, now the fish seem to be less interested in being caught than ever before, and we are left with this great knowledge of how to catch fish and less folks are fishing.
I say it is ti...me for us to catch fish, what better way to teach how to catch than actually catching them. When I was a little boy I would go to the fishing hole to catch fish, there were times fish swam all around me without being hooked once. Then times I hit the hole at the right time and catch all kinds of fish. It has been my experience; one has to be there to catch them when it is the right time to catch them.
I guess at one time teaching someone how to catch fish was more important than catching fish. How we framed the idea then is not working with the context of our world today. Fish are swimming all around us and it is time to simply catch them. Go Fish, you will figure it out if you want to catch them bad enough. If you ever catch one, you will be hooked from then on to hook another one.
Listen, Jesus said He would make us to be fishers of men, not teach us, but rather make us to be. Fishing is just something you do because it is in you to do whether you know how or not.
Matthew 4:19 (KJV)
"And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."
Okay, we caught some fish; we laid our fishing equipment down and began to teach how to catch fish. We have proclaimed it is more important to teach how to catch fish than it is to catch fish. Well, now the fish seem to be less interested in being caught than ever before, and we are left with this great knowledge of how to catch fish and less folks are fishing.
I say it is ti...me for us to catch fish, what better way to teach how to catch than actually catching them. When I was a little boy I would go to the fishing hole to catch fish, there were times fish swam all around me without being hooked once. Then times I hit the hole at the right time and catch all kinds of fish. It has been my experience; one has to be there to catch them when it is the right time to catch them.
I guess at one time teaching someone how to catch fish was more important than catching fish. How we framed the idea then is not working with the context of our world today. Fish are swimming all around us and it is time to simply catch them. Go Fish, you will figure it out if you want to catch them bad enough. If you ever catch one, you will be hooked from then on to hook another one.
Listen, Jesus said He would make us to be fishers of men, not teach us, but rather make us to be. Fishing is just something you do because it is in you to do whether you know how or not.
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