Discipleship

Re:Verse passage – John 21:1-19 (day four)

Scripture holds a lot of beautiful symmetry. At the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, he called fishermen to follow him (Matt. 4:19). He took the small world that they knew and expanded it to reveal the vastness of the Kingdom of God. Now, after the resurrection, he’s calling those same fishermen into increasingly expanding possibilities.

Now that Jesus has appeared to all those closest to him, he takes the time to remind them that there is more to come. All that they had experienced with him – his ministry, death, and resurrection – were just the beginning. They are now being sent out as fishers of men to build his church. He sums up their calling with the phrase “tend my sheep.” The entirety of the apostolic calling is boiled down here to discipleship.

We share this same calling. Who has tended to you in the way Jesus describes here? Who are you tending to?