Jesus Calls
Last Sunday, we began our journey with Jesus to the mount of Transfiguration as we read about the calling of Andrew, his friend, and his brother Simon . We saw in the story four intersections between the biblical world and our own: to be disciple is to have Jesus as our goal; to be a disciple is to follow after the Lamb of God; to be a disciple is to gain spiritual insight; and to be a disciple is to make invite others into the same discipleship. We continue in the same vein this week as we read another call story . It involves some of the same people, but it is reset in terms of its location (from the Jordan, near the Dead Sea we move now to the sea of Galilee , near the village of Capernaum ) . And the action is recast: instead of Andrew and his friend catching up to Jesus, Jesus now comes striding up to two pairs of fishermen. Our text falls into two paragraphs. The...