Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon. Hey we're going to work. I'm Keith Simon.

Hey, we're going to start today with a modern day parable. Here it goes.

Now, it came to pass that a group existed who called themselves fishermen,

and there were many fish in the waters all around them.

In fact, the whole area was surrounded by streams and lakes filled with fish,

and the fish were hungry.

Week after week, month after month, and year after year, these who called themselves

fishermen met meetings and talked about their call to fish, the abundance of fish, and how they

might go about fishing. Year after year, they carefully defined what fishing

what fishing means. They defended fishing as an occupation and they declared

that fishing is always to be the primary task of fishermen.

Continually they searched for new and better methods of fishing and for new and better definitions of fishing.

They loved slogans such as, fishing is the task of every fisherman fisherman and every fisherman is a fisher.

They sponsored special meetings called Fisherman's campaigns.

They sponsored costly nationwide and worldwide Congresses to discuss fishing, to promote fishing, and to hear

about all the ways of fishing such as the new fishing equipment, fish calls, and whether any

new bait was discovered.

These fishermen built large beautiful buildings called fishing headquarters.

The plea was that everyone should be a fisherman, and every fishermen should fish.

One thing they didn't do, however, they didn't fish.

In addition to meeting regularly, they organized a board to send out fishermen to other places where there are many fish.

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