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Luke 5

In the days of Jesus, it was common for a rabbi (teacher) to take some young men as students (disciples) and they would do everything the rabbi would do.

I love this story of Simon becoming a disciple . . . v5 is almost “you’re clearly crazy but because you healed my mother in law I’ll give it a whirl!” And then of course Jesus astonishes him with an extraordinary catch.

Keep that question in your mind, “What would God on earth look like?”

He looks like:
Someone who knows where the fish are (more than the experts)
Someone who is generous (even with those who’ve been proven wrong)
Someone who wants to and can heal
Someone who thinks that having your sins forgiven is really important (even more important than being healed)
Someone who believes even the socially unclean can be included in God’s kingdom
Someone who is not too fussed with the way things have always been done and recognizes that new ideas sometimes require new contexts
Someone who came for those who needed him not those who didn’t think they did

• Is that someone you could follow (learn from)?
• What does Jesus know (better) about your work (social group / family) that you don’t?
• Do you need healing?
• Do you need your sin being forgiven?