Keeping Up with the Disciples

Its 1:52pm on this Wednesday afternoon. As i thought about the building of my school i reflected on the courage that it would take to start something from absolutely nothing. Can you imagine a couple of acres of land, no blue print, no resources, no workers, and no idea what to do. I realized that THIS is how Jesus started His ministry. Though God is all powerful and omnipresent, Jesus started everything from scratch. When the world was completely corrupted (refer to early chapters of the 4 gospels) He rose up and created a kingdom, redeemed those that cursed Him, and also influenced, what till this day remains, the biggest seller in history of books. Do you understand that all of History was based on His-Story (hehe)?

i was thinking about how he chose 12 random, unprepared, underqualified, and somewhat arrogant (peter) guys. how can you possible do what He did with 12 random guys, who many believe, with the exception of peter, were all under 21 years of age. The bible says he chose them, that they MIGHT do His will.

The impacting thing about these 12 was that they were NOT perfect, NOT worthy, and NOT capable, simply willing. Im going to get straight to the point. God-willing i hope you understand this.

All 12 disciples died PREACHING his word, with the exception of Judas( but lets not get into that :D), and lived for Christ. Some were bruised, burned, beat, and martyred. the amazing men brought us many books of the bible, but now they are gone. Where do you fit in the kingdom that Christ came to establish? YOU are the continuation of the disciples. You see NOW there are not only 12 disciples there are many. Missionaries, evangelists, pastors, and many normal people deny themselves, pick up there cross and follow Christ. It is up to US to continue to word of God and spread it. We have alot of ground to cover and i motivate you to read the books of Peter, let him speak to you, from grace, that we have a job that will bring JOY despite the trials that we will first go through. Keep up with the disciples and don't be satisfied with what they did. GO OUT and PREACH!