Luke 5:4b"Put
out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch."
How frustrating and useless is a
fishing net that doesn’t hold fish (or whatever you’re
catching.) This is why we find James and John mending their nets.
Their lively hood depended on catching fish and they understood
that to accomplish that, the nets have to be intact.
FISHERS OF MEN
The Christian is a fisherman by trade. Matt
4:19 "Then He said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make
you fishers of men." Every single man or woman of
God is called to fish and the church is the net. You witness,
evangelize, lead people to Christ, but the church is the net that
brings the fish together into a place where their lives can be
radically altered. Rather than simply give people a salvation
experience and send them swimming on their way, the church is the
net that seeks to hold them and keep them in a personal
relationship with God Himself, immersing people in the
preservative power of His presence and His family.
See the church is the net, but you and I are the
individual strands. We are not just a bunch of individual
Christians who meet together three times a week because we happen
to attend the same church. We are the church, together. We need to
make sure that the net is in good shape because, God has a
habit of filling nets that are cast for
souls!
We want to share with you others that share the
same command goal, that being, "FISHERS
OF MEN." here are links to other sites that we thought
you might find useful.
