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In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Patrick Miller.

Last summer, I went fly fishing for the first time. My friends had hired a guide to take us to a remote lake in the interior of Iceland, and I quickly

discovered that fly fishing is far more complex than I ever could have imagined. The guide came

equipped with countless little handmade flies, and each was a different color or a different

way to draw out different kinds of fish at different times of day, so he had one kind of fly for

an Arctic char, a different kind for a brown

trout. Now, I know it will surprise no one to admit that I caught very few fish during my first

expedition. Only three, very, very small Arctic char. In fact, they were so small I couldn't even

keep them. So I am not a master fisherman, nor did I become one on that day. I was just a student

and a poor one at that. As I was sitting out there casting or doing what I call casting,

I was thinking about Jesus' words to the disciples, that he would make them into fishers of men.

Of course, that implied that he himself was the master fisher, and they would be expected

to learn how he threw down his nets and lured fish and hauled them aboard. Throughout the gospel

of Luke, we see countless people drawn to Jesus for different reasons. But in chapter 9,

Luke seems to want us to ask ourselves a question as his readers.

What's drawn me to Christ?

I mean, I was the fish once, right?

What got me hooked on Jesus?

What was the net that pulled me into his boat?

Let's pick up in verse 7, where Jesus gets a rather unusual fish on the line.

Now Herod, the tetrarch, heard about what was going on, and he was perplexed because some were saying that John had been raised from the dead, others that Elijah had

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