Catch people where they are mostly lost

The Spotless Agenda: 008

Catch people where they are mostly lost

Matthew 4:19, Easy English

" 'Come with me and be my disciples’, Jesus said to them. ‘And I will teach you how to catch people.’ "

Wonder why Jesus taught the lesson of caching people at the seashore? It is because his mode of teaching was Demonstration. At the seashore, he demonstrated how to catch people. 

People who are into the business of catching fish don't waste time around streams and springs. They are always on the sea or river or lake. Some of them sleep on sea for days. Until they get a bumper harvest, they don't return home. 

Evangelism is about winning the lost. Take note of this: not just any kind of soul, but the lost!

If your business is picking up seeds that someone else has already sown, then you are not a farmer. If your business is collecting fishes from the boat when it arrives from the sea, then you are not a fisher. The farmer is the one who sows the seed. The fisher is the one who goes to sea and brings home fishes. 

While some are picking sheep from other people's folds, they think that they are the true shepherds. While some are picking up seeds that other people have already sown in the ground, they think that they are the true farmers. Seed picking or sheep picking is not evangelism.

Fishers go to sea where fishes are mostly found. Likewise Evangelists go to places where the lost are mostly found. Period!

Are you a farmer or a seed picker? A shepherd or a sheep picker? A fisher or a fish collector? If you are a good farmer, go and sow on a land which has not been already cultivated. If you are a good shepherd, mate your own ram and ewe, and watch the lambs grow. 

Peter, James and John were not fish collectors. They were fishers. So they understood the difference between fishing and collecting fishes from the boat. They fully comprehended Jesus when he taught them how to catch people: that they should catch people where they are mostly lost. 

The person whom many contemporary preachers deem to be the greatest apostle of all time said this, "I always want very much to go to places where nobody has ever told the people about Christ before. I want to tell the good news to the people in those places. Then I will not be continuing someone else’s work for God, that they have started. I will not be continuing to build a house in a place where someone else has already begun to build."

He called himself a preacher [thus, evangelist], an apostle and a teacher. What do you call yourself and how are you doing the ministry?

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  1. Sage WordMay 4, 2022 at 12:32 AM

    The Spotless Agenda is a move towards a spotless church. Study, reason and question (srq) Scripture in order to find evidence of the truth. Remember, this is achievable only through the Holy Spirit.

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