Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.

Matthew chapter 4, verse 19, Jesus said to them, follow me, and I will make you fissures of men.

This was Jesus' initial invitation to four disciples.

Simon also called Peter, Andrew, his brother, and then after that, James and John.

Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

And in this picture, we see Jesus' invitation to every single one of us.

He has invited us to follow him,

which is pure mercy from the start that Jesus would,

just like he did with these guys, he would come to us.

He would initiate relationship with us,

that he would call us to himself.

But then notice, as we follow him, the inevitable result, he says, follow me and I will make

you fishers of men.

And from the very beginning, following Jesus was attached to fishing for men.

Every follower would be made a fisher.

And fishing for men, obviously Jesus is using an analogy here,

a picture of how these were fishermen.

They were used to this.

And he was saying, listen, instead of just going out looking for fish,

you're now going to go out looking for people to bring into the kingdom. This is what it's going to mean to follow me. As you follow

me, you're going to bring other people to follow me. I think about a friend of mine who

served for a long time in a really hard part of the world

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